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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
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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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.
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In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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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).
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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.
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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] 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.
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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
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
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Katharine Whitehorn
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn
Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
Katharine Whitehorn
Spring makes everything look filthy.
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