Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
BARRY HUMPHRIESFriendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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I love Australia – I think.
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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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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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