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Top 20 Barry Humphries Quotes (2024 Update)

Barry Humphries Quote: “I love Australia – I think.”

1. “I love Australia – I think.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”

2. “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.”

3. “I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.”

4. “Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.”

5. “If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”

6. “New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.”

7. “The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Barry Humphries Quote: “There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.”

9. “There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.”

10. “Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries Quote: “Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.”

12. “Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.”

13. “The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.”

14. “To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.”

15. “I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.”

16. “I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.”

— Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries Quote: “Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.”

17. “Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries Quote: “He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.”

19. “He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.”

20. “Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.”

21. “I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.”

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Barry Humphries Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries Quote: “My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.”

23. “My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.”

— Barry Humphries

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