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Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

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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.

Eat, Refuse, Three, Worry, Worth, Years

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

Class, Filthy, Luck, Middle, Permanently, Temper

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, Grave, Knowing, Mistake

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Beauty, Class, Lonely, Power, Unfancied

I 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.

Censorship, Fear, Law, Laws, Magic, Writers

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Loyalty, Parent, Pay, School

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

Enough, Finished, Important, Remember, Scene, Writing

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

Conception, Fighting, Impracticable, Mean, War

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Art, Father, Habit, Looking, Luck

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Guilty, Like, Marriage, Parole, Pleading, Sentence

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

Accountants, Aggravation, Children, Flower, Interesting

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

Book, Cutting, Depicted, Discouraging, Publications, Squad

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

Agree, Allowed, Hell, Place, Where You Are

Rumpole, you must move with the times. " "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

Moving, Refuse, Way

On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn’t want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

Born, Eat, Lunch, Pigs, Wouldnt, Years

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.

Children, Good Life, Telling, Work, Working

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, Books, Children, Ready

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

Agreeable, Murderer, Peaceful, Usually, World

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Advice, Happiness, Health, Life, Secret, Small

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Alluring, Business, Exchange, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

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