John Mortimer Quotes
"There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Pleasure, Worth, Years)
"There is always time for failure."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Time, Failure)
"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Children, Fault, Succeed)
"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Life, Writer)
"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Validity, Writing)
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Common sense, Law, Nothing)
"To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Duty, England, Jury)
"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."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Life, Pleasure, Worth, Years)
"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Tragedy)
"All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Children, Congress)
"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Fortune, Freedom, Sound, Speech)