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.

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.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

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

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.'

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

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.

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.