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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Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life.
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There are a lot of sacrifices involved in running and it can certainly be difficult at times,
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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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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 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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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.