61+ Katharine Whitehorn Quotes On Education, Culture And Insightful

Katharine Whitehorn was a British journalist, author and columnist. She was best known for her long-running column in the Observer newspaper, which she wrote from 1963 to 2006. She was an early pioneer of feminist journalism, and wrote on a wide range of topics from family life to politics. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Katharine Whitehorn on education, leadership, love.

Top 10 Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

1. Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
2. The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
3. The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.
4. Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
5. I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
6. Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
7. It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
8. There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
9. A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
10. 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.

Katharine Whitehorn Short Quotes

• The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
• Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
• Spring makes everything look filthy.
• From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
• No nice men are good at getting taxis.
• It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
• In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
• Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
• Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.
• I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Katharine Whitehorn Quotes About People

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. — Katharine Whitehorn

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Whitehorn Quotes About Children

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

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep. — Katharine Whitehorn

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally. — Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Whitehorn Famous Quotes And Sayings

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished. — Katharine Whitehorn

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases). — Katharine Whitehorn

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

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. — Katharine Whitehorn

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze. — Katharine Whitehorn

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. — Katharine Whitehorn

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. — Katharine Whitehorn

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. — Katharine Whitehorn

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority. — Katharine Whitehorn

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick. — Katharine Whitehorn

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives. — Katharine Whitehorn

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater. — Katharine Whitehorn

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age. — Katharine Whitehorn

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. — Katharine Whitehorn

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. — Katharine Whitehorn

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? — Katharine Whitehorn

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do. — Katharine Whitehorn

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. — Katharine Whitehorn

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation. — Katharine Whitehorn

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life. — Katharine Whitehorn

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

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. — Katharine Whitehorn

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? — Katharine Whitehorn

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. — Katharine Whitehorn

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.' — Katharine Whitehorn

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). — Katharine Whitehorn

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in. — Katharine Whitehorn

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get. — Katharine Whitehorn

Life Lessons by Katharine Whitehorn

1. Katharine Whitehorn taught us to never give up, no matter what life throws at us. She was a trailblazer for women in journalism and worked for over 60 years in the industry, even after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
2. Her courage and resilience showed us that it is possible to achieve our goals, even when faced with adversity. She was an advocate for equal rights and opportunities for women, and her work helped to empower a generation of female journalists.
3. Katharine Whitehorn's life and work taught us to never give up on our dreams, to be resilient in the face of adversity, and to fight for equal rights and opportunities for all.