Katharine Whitehorn People Quotations

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

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

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

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

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

[On the English climate:] 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.

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.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

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.