“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...”

— Katharine Whitehorn

“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 best careers advice given to the young ... is Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”

— Katharine Whitehorn

“A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.”

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Katharine Whitehorn