Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
BARRY HUMPHRIESNever be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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I love Australia – I think.
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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