Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn (English Journalist)

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (1928–2021) was a British journalist, writer, and columnist. She was noted for her wit and humor in tackling social concerns and observations of women.

Born in Hendon, Middlesex, Whitehorn studied English at Newnham College-Cambridge and did postgraduate studies at Cornell University. She worked briefly as a model before embarking on a writing career.

Whitehorn was the first woman to have her own column in The Observer. She was known for her tongue-in-cheek pieces. She worked for The Observer 1960–96 and returned to write regular columns for The Observer magazine until 2017. She also wrote for Picture Post and Saga magazine, where she was agony aunt for 19 years.

Whitehorn wrote Only on Sundays (1966,) Observations (1970,) Sunday Best (1976,) and View from a Column (1981.) Her Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961) was adapted into a Radio 4 comedy (2016.) Her last work was Selective Memory (2007.)

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Holidays, Christmas

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Housework

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Children

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.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Weather

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
Topics: Committees

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Listening

The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Career, Advice

No nice men are good at getting taxis.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Men

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Party

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Money

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
Topics: Smoking

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one’s own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Motivation

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