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 WhitehornDoes anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
Katharine WhitehornFrom a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine WhitehornIt 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 had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.
Katharine Whitehorn