Recently Added Quotes by John Mortimer

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• There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  John Mortimer#Extra 73

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• All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

  John Mortimer#Accountants 63

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• The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

  John Mortimer#Bore 21

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• 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#Censorship 16

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• There is always time for failure.

  John Mortimer#Failure 65

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• To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

  John Mortimer#Bowler 70

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• 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#diet 41

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• 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#Fight 40

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• Watlington, which combined the distinction of being the smallest town in England with having more pubs per head of the population than I believed possible. john mortimer

  John Mortimer#Alcohol 69

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• Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

  John Mortimer#Tragedy 35

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