From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

- Katharine Whitehorn

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

- Katharine Whitehorn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

- Katharine Whitehorn

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

- Katharine Whitehorn

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

- Katharine Whitehorn

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

- 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 done.

- Katharine Whitehorn

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

- Katharine Whitehorn

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

- Katharine Whitehorn

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

- 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

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

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

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

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

- Katharine Whitehorn

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

- Katharine Whitehorn

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

- Katharine Whitehorn

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

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

- Katharine Whitehorn