If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI love Australia – I think.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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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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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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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 like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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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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