John Mortimer Quotes
Top 32 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Mortimer
John Mortimer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
She believed that, in an ideal world, the working class would rule the country, but she had no particular desire to ask any of them to tea.
Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
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.
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it ...
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.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Rumpole, you must move with the times."
"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.