Barry Humphries Quotes

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• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
• I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
• Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
• Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
• To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
• 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…
• 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.
• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
• He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
• The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
• 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…
• I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
• Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
• 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…

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