The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
BARRY HUMPHRIESIf you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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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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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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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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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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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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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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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I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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I love Australia – I think.
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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 have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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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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