An 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[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 WhitehornThings a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
Katharine WhitehornIn my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
Katharine Whitehorn