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People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.
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Quoted in Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85," The Independent (2009-01-16)

 

John Mortimer

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