Katharine Whitehorn
British writer
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, writer, and columnist for the London Observer known for her wit and commentary on women in their times.
Quotes
edit- People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
- "Of the English climate" The Observer (London, 7 August 1966)
- Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
- Are You Sitting Comfortably?, from Observations (1970)
- The best careers advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
- "The Ten-Hour Week is Here to Stay," from The Observer (London, 19 January 1975)
- A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
- The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
- From How to Survive Children (London: Eyre Methuen, 1975), as cited by Valerie Grove in "A mother's revenge on Warlock the Weirdo", Evening Standard (28 November 1986), p. 20–21
- I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
- Decoding the West, from Sunday Best (1976)
- There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
- The Observer (London, 30 October 1988)
- I wouldn’t say when you’ve seen one Western you’ve seen the lot; but when you’ve seen the lot you get the feeling you’ve seen one.
- "Decoding the West", in Sunday Best (1976)
- Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
- "Hats", in Shouts and Murmurs (1963)
- No nice men are good at getting taxis.
- Column in The Observer (1977)
