top of page
"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Mother quotes

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."
Explore more quotes by Barry Humphries

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

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

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

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

"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
bottom of page