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 WhitehornAs I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
Katharine WhitehornI 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 WhitehornI 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 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