[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.
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. - Katharine Whitehorn
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
- 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
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on… - Katharine Whitehorn
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on…
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
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they ha… - Katharine Whitehorn
It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they ha…
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut… - Katharine Whitehorn
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut…
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking… - 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 and is not capable of looking…
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. - Katharine Whitehorn
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the … - Katharine Whitehorn
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the …
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