"The secret of good health and happiness is……" — John Mortimer
"The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do."
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45 Quotes by John Mortimer
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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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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
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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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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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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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