"Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite……" — John Mortimer
"Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole."
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45 Quotes by John Mortimer
John Mortimer has 45 quotes on this site.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,…
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and…
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What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
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I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the…
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Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
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We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
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The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely…
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To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the…
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More Guilty Quotes
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time…
— Antonio Banderas
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as…
— Saint Basil
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved…
— Tammy Bruce
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of…
— George W. Bush
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the…
— Tony Campolo
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