Source: Paradise Postponed
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Famous John Mortimer Quotes
Source: Rumpole for the Defence
Source: Paradise Postponed
Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life
“Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.”
“Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.”
Source: Where There's a Will
Source: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
“The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.”
Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life
“Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.”
Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life
Source: Rumpole Misbehaves
Source: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
“Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.”
Source: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
“We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.”
“To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.”
“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
“The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.”
“No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.”
“The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.”
“It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.”
“We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.”
Source: The Summer of a Dormouse
“There is always time for failure”
Source: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
“All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.”