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
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
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
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Money
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
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
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
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
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
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
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Holidays, Christmas
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Men
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- Jeanette Winterson English Novelist
- Holbrook Jackson British Journalist
- Edwin Arnold English Poet
- G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
- Malcolm Muggeridge English Journalist
- Daniel Defoe English Writer
- Germaine Greer Australia Academic
- Florence Nightingale English Nurse
- Hartley Coleridge British Poet
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