From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

More from Katharine Whitehorn

• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
• Above all, do not fail to give good dinners, and to pay attention to the women.
• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
• Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
• Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwlrighty then!