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John Mortimer Quotes

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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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.  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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 Quotes) The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed  (John Mortimer Quotes) I don’t believe in children’s books. I think after you’ve read Kidnapped, treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you’re ready for anything  (John Mortimer Quotes) To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph  (John Mortimer Quotes) Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you’re making deals  (John Mortimer Quotes) Success is good for the character  (John Mortimer Quotes) Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied  (John Mortimer Quotes) Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole  (John Mortimer Quotes) There is always time for failure  (John Mortimer Quotes) A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism  (John Mortimer Quotes) Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they’re usually quite peaceful and agreeable  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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 Quotes) All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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 Quotes) No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails  (John Mortimer Quotes) The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech  (John Mortimer Quotes) The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself  (John Mortimer Quotes) A barrister’s job is to put the case for the defense as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate’s skills. The barrister’s belief or disbelief in the truth of the story is irrelevant: it’s for the jury to decide this often difficult question  (John Mortimer Quotes) Beliefs about how you live your life, matters of private decision, views best kept for private enjoyment, prejudice or entertainment, can’t be imposed by the operation of criminal law. Attempts to enforce such views can only make the government the subject of ridicule  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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  (John Mortimer Quotes) If you can’t sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?  (John Mortimer Quotes) The anxiety has been greatly increased by this government’s multiplication of exams and emphasis on starting training as a middle manager in a computer company from the age of six  (John Mortimer Quotes) All I can do is advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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  (John Mortimer Quotes) The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt  (John Mortimer Quotes) I don’t think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you’ve done it  (John Mortimer Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (John Mortimer Quotes)
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