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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
