85 Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn

A good marriage is like Dr Who’s Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

The main purpose of children’s parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

The disease is painless; it’s the cure that hurts.

It’s a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband’s mother, I didn’t feel so much worse about it than he does.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn’t married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

It beats me how Freud could say “What do women want?” as if we all must want the same thing.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you’d never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things...