Barry Humphries Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I love Australia – I think.

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

If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

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

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

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

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

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.