Creative Quotations from . . .
John Mortimer
(1923-2009) born on Apr 21
English novelist, playwright, barrister. He wrote a hugely popular series with a masterfully conceived character (Horace Rumpole) - irascible, anti-authority, fiercely independent, and politically incorrect.
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F
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."

R
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
A
The freedom to make a fortune on the Stock Exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
N
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
K
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
 

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Daily Mail (London, 31 May 1988).
R: A Voyage Round My Father," I
A: Quoted in: Independent (London, 29 Oct. 1988).
N: Times (London, 9 Sept. 1992).
K: Quoted in: Sunday Times (London, 27 Dec. 1987).
 

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