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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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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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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I love Australia – I think.
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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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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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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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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