John Mortimer Quotes

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

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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 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.

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

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

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: "There is life, but it's not for you."

There is always time for failure.

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

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