John Mortimer

John Mortimer

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

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    “Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)

    “Approval of what is approved of
    Is as false as a well-kept vow.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)