I think being dead isn’t any problem. It’s the process of dying which is quite off-putting. John Mortimer Read Quote
If you’re an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you. John Mortimer Read Quote
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it’s about what someone else wants you to say. John Mortimer Read Quote
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. John Mortimer Read Quote
Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But I don’t know that I could bring myself to vote Tory. John Mortimer Read Quote
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed. John Mortimer Read Quote
My father was the doyen of the divorce barristers. He was an extremely erudite and very famous divorce barrister. So that, when I was a little boy in the nursery, instead of a story like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ I used to get ‘The Duchess and the Seven Correspondents.’ John Mortimer Read Quote
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. John Mortimer Read Quote
It’s barrister behaviour to say what you think will appeal to the person you’re talking to, whoever it happens to be, whether it’s true or not. John Mortimer Read Quote
