Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
BARRY HUMPHRIESMost of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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 love Australia – I think.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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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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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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 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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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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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