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Quotes by John Mortimer

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
– John Mortimer
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
– John Mortimer
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
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
– John Mortimer
No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
– John Mortimer
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
– John Mortimer
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
– John Mortimer
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
– John Mortimer
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
– John Mortimer
There is always time for failure.
– John Mortimer
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
– John Mortimer