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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
Katharine Whitehorn
Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
Katharine Whitehorn
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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
Spring makes everything look filthy.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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
The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
Katharine Whitehorn
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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
The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
Katharine Whitehorn
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn
