Giving Quote by Barry Humphries Download Open image “If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.” — Barry Humphries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Giving up Ifs Might Satire Wells
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress. — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
