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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My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.
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Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.
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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 main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.
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I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it...
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Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
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He had his eyes open. We knew he was alive. He knew I was there.
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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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No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
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should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.
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She's certainly not a flash in the pan. She was highly recruited out of high school and went on to have a fantastic career at Kansas State, where she was a 12-time All-American.
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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.