John Mortimer Quotes

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they`re not going to succeed.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

There is always time for failure.

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.