John Mortimer
John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1923
may belief significant
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
character
Success is good for the character.
success thinking done
I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it...
war mean fighting
A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
peaceful world murderer
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
strong exclamation-marks imagination
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
divorce thinking people
People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.
rocks law safety
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.
book cutting squad
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.
father wife house
When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me about the house all day 'wearing a dressing gown, brewing tea and stumped for words'.
funny humor ideas
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
lunch spain found
I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.
our-world people horror
The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.
hell where-you-are agree
Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.