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‘I am as happy,’ said he, ‘as a kingk, enchoying himsellef in his harem mit his queens.’
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
The different men we are in conceit and in humility! Vanity is all the vitamins and all the calories; vanity can keep a man warm in winter without blankets.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
It is not without design that the monkey with the rainbow stern climbs high. It is the advertisement of his sex appeal, and he doesn't climb far unless there is an audience.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
His moments of most sentimental recollection were when he thought of the beauty of the sausages he had manufactured.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
Australia has a word for the Anthony Comstocks, a word that should be used the world over to describe a killjoy, and that word is 'wowser'.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
The Governor was a little pink old gentleman; so soft in the skin that he seemed to be stuffed with moss.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
There was a bushman serving at Pentridge a sentence for horse stealing. He was a very honest man. He would not think of stealing a penny, but a horse was a different matter.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
For we have here a beautiful land that none could e’er knock down,
The brightest jewel that ever was known in dear old George's crown;
The brightest jewel that ever was known and never can be a failure.
Although the damn Labor party is doing its best to ruin Australia...
Pretty as a picture and poor as a crow.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
Big Money is always on the Lord's side.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
At the age of five I had begun an association with Temperance Societies; which ended at the age of sixteen—when I discovered the goodness of beer.
Naught to Thirty-three (1944)