John Mortimer's Profile
Brief about John Mortimer: By info that we know John Mortimer was born at 1923-04-21. And also John Mortimer is English Novelist.
Some John Mortimer's quotes. Goto "John Mortimer's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Diet, Life, WorthTo escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
Tags: Daily, Duty, EscapeNo brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
Tags: Common, Law, SenseAll the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
Tags: Children, Congress, FlowerI 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.
Tags: Fear, Magic, ShowThe freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Tags: Freedom, Sound, SpeechThe only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
Tags: Found, Writing, YourselfThe shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Tags: Between, Life, WriterThe worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
Tags: Children, Succeed, WorkingThere is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Tags: Pleasure, Three, WorthStories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
Tags: Between, Drink, PossibleThey defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
Tags: Move, Private, PublicFor a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
Tags: Family, Said, TimeHe's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.
Tags: Family, Tv, WantsI would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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