Quotes by John Mortimer

John Mortimer

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

Fighting

Mean

War

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Aggravation

Children

Flower

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

Choices

Knowing

Mistake

Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

Exclamation Marks

Imagination

Strong

Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing 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.

Dying

Laughing

Running

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Farce

Theatre

Tragedy

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

Agree

Hell

Where You Are

I don’t believe in children’s books. I think after you’ve read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you’re ready for anything.

Believe

Book

Children

I don’t think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you’ve done it.

Done

Success

Thinking

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they’re usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

Children

Hate

Hurt

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Accompany

Advice

Aggravation

Agree

Alcohol

America

Art

Beauty

Belief

Believe

Book

Bores

Business

Character

Childhood

Children

Choices

Class

Common Sense

Cutting

Differences

Divorce

Done

Dying

Education

England

Exclamation Marks

Fall

Farce

Father

Fear

Fighting

Flower

Found

Freedom Of Speech

Funny

Good Life

Growing Up

Guilty

Hands

Hate

Hats

Hell

Horror

House

Humans

Humor

Hurt

Ideas

Imagination

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Quotes by John Mortimer

John Mortimer

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing 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.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I don’t believe in children’s books. I think after you’ve read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you’re ready for anything.

I don’t think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you’ve done it.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they’re usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

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