Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
BARRY HUMPHRIESSex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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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 whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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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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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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