I love Australia – I think.
BARRY HUMPHRIESTo live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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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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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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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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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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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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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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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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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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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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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 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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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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