Words matter. These are the best John Mortimer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed.
There is always time for failure.
It’s barrister behaviour to say what you think will appeal to the person you’re talking to, whoever it happens to be, whether it’s true or not.
One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.
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.
I think being dead isn’t any problem. It’s the process of dying which is quite off-putting.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it’s something rather like a curse that you’re born with.
I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the only way to treat children.
Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
