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
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Children can spot pomposity, insincerity and self-regard a mile off and are the best possible antidote to such diseases.
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No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
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Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles. They love to see a medical man put through it.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
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I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.
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Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.
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Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.