- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
John Mortimer Quotes
Most Famous John Mortimer Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best john-mortimer quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 John Mortimer Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Geriatric
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Congress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Failure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is always time for failure.
- Daily
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
- Freedom Of Speech
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
- Milk
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
- Law
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
- Fault
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the doyen of the divorce barristers. He was an extremely erudite and very famous divorce barrister. So that, when I was a little boy in the nursery, instead of a story like 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' I used to get 'The Duchess and the Seven Correspondents.'
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it's about what someone else wants you to say.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But I don't know that I could bring myself to vote Tory.
- Law
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.
- Think
- |
- Nov 07, 2020