Author: John Mortimer

Cites

• H. G. Wells (3)
  • IN: Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: Love and Mr Lewisham, (1900), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: 1900, (1900), Novel, UK
  • IN: Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: Love and My Lewisham, (1899), Novel, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), Book, UK
  • IN: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends.
    FROM: Jeremiah 20:4, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Joseph Conrad (2)
  • IN: Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The terrorist and policeman both come from the same basket.
    FROM: The Secret Agent, (1907), Novel, England/Poland
  • IN: The Sound of Trumpets (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Of course government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
    FROM: Nostromo, (1904), Novel, UK
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1)
  • IN: Titmuss Regained (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
    FROM: Inversnaid, (1918), Poem, UK
• John Bunyan (1)
  • IN: The Sound of Trumpets (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... So he passed over, and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
    FROM: The Pilgrim's Progress (Mr Valiant-for-Truth), (1678), Novel, UK
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
    FROM: The Myth of Sisyphus (trans. by Justin O'Brien), (1991), Essay, France
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Paradise Postponed (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the houses The little pianos are closed, and a clock strikes. And all sway forward on the dangerous flood Of history, that never sleeps or dies, And, held one moment, burns the hand.
    FROM: Look Stranger, XXX, (1936), Poem, US/England
• William Shakespeare (4)
  • IN: Quite Honestly (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
    FROM: King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6, (1608), Play, UK
  • IN: And the Primrose Path (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had though to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.
    FROM: Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Summer's Lease (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And summer's lease hath all too short a date
    FROM: Sonnet XVIII, (1609), Poem, UK
• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Quite Honestly (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer.
    FROM: "Bishop Blougram's Apology", (None), NULL, UK
• William Wordsworth (1)
  • IN: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Will no one tell me what she sings? -- Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago:
    FROM: "The Solitary Reaper", (1807), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Jake Gerhardt (2)
  • IN: Me & Miranda Mullaly (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't know what you think about being young. To me, it's a time for growing used to disappointment.
    FROM: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, (2004), Novel, UK
  • IN: Me & Miranda and Mullaly (2016) Children's Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't know what you think about being young. To me, it's a time for growing used to disappointment.
    FROM: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, (2004), Novel, UK
• William Bernhardt (1)
  • IN: Primary Justice (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the curse, as well as the fascination of the law, that lawyers get to know more than is good for them about their fellow human beings.
    FROM: NULL, (1979), NULL, UK