Having Heart Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

— Katharine Whitehorn

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

— Katharine Whitehorn

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

— Katharine Whitehorn

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

— Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

— Katharine Whitehorn

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

— Katharine Whitehorn

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

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

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

— Katharine Whitehorn

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

— Katharine Whitehorn

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord…

— Katharine Whitehorn

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…

— Katharine Whitehorn