I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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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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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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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I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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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 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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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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