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A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
— John Mortimer
Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.
— John Mortimer
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
— John Mortimer
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
— John Mortimer
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
She who must be obeyed, by Horace Rumpole character
— John Mortimer
There is always time for failure.
— John Mortimer
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.
— John Mortimer
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
— John Mortimer
Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
— John Mortimer
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
— John Mortimer
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
— John Mortimer
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
— John Mortimer
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
— 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
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
— John Mortimer
Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing.
— John Mortimer
Pope John's advisers were worried about the freedom to speak and to come and go to and from the council.
— Ian Mortimer
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
— John Mortimer
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
— John Mortimer
I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it ...
— John Mortimer
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
— 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
Rumpole, you must move with the times.""If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them. — John Mortimer
Success is good for the character.
— John Mortimer
The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.
— John Mortimer Smith
