1923-, British Barrister, Novelist
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer – [Theater]


The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer – [Stock Market]


The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John Mortimer – [Writers and Writing]


The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
John Mortimer – [Working Class]


When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
John Mortimer – [Age and Aging]