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 WhitehornI just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
Katharine WhitehornAn office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
Katharine Whitehorn