Talk:Katharine Whitehorn

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• A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
• Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
• The trouble with so many born-again people is that you wish they hadn't been born the first time.
• When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
• I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
• From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
• I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
• Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
• Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
• An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
• Bringing down the mighty from their seats is an agreeable and necessary pastime, but no one supposes that the mighty, having struggled so hard to get seated, will enjoy the dethronement.
• Men have four legs: food, food, sex and food.
• A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
• The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.