The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
BARRY HUMPHRIESIt’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.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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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 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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I love Australia – I think.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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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 know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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 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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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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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’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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