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 More Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn More Quotes From Katharine Whitehorn It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. Katharine Whitehorn pity birth men And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am? Katharine Whitehorn home men order American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep. Katharine Whitehorn cracks children looks Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. Katharine Whitehorn office order past One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater. Katharine Whitehorn theater parent reason The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Katharine Whitehorn insightful money people 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. Katharine Whitehorn weather long people A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katharine Whitehorn women hate children A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within. Katharine Whitehorn drs marriage interesting A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. Katharine Whitehorn sore-throat women listening Spring makes everything look filthy. Katharine Whitehorn april spring looks It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing. Katharine Whitehorn women-want beats want 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 umpires dark sports From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. Katharine Whitehorn christmas views funny The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. Katharine Whitehorn censorship running long 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 pounds smoking doe 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 airports misery littles Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money. Katharine Whitehorn youth money young Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe. Katharine Whitehorn friends habit found 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 girl trying men