a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.
Katharine WhitehornA good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katharine WhitehornWhy do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine WhitehornPeople get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn