Katharine Whitehorn Quotes - Page 3

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• I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Sports, Dark, Umpires

  "Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Son, Daddy

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• 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

  Party, Home, Men

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• 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

  Children, Overwhelmed, Married

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• It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Nice, Thinking, Miracle

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• No nice men are good at getting taxis.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Wedding, Nice, Inspiration

  Observer 1977

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

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Class, Three, Hats

  'Hats' in 'Shouts and Murmurs' (1963) No nice men are good at getting taxis. In 'Observer' 1977

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• [On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Horse, Thinking, Age

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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