116 Quotes by John Mortimer

Dieting: the only excuse for dieting is poverty.

I’ve got no time for blokes who sit in Kathmandu contemplating their navels and putting up with poverty and starvation, and the worst class system outside Bournemouth.

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.