I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
BARRY HUMPHRIESI like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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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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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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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 truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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I love Australia – I think.
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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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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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