Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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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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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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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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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 like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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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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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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