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Dress to Kill Dress to Kill by Eddie Izzard
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“We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“Have you got a flag?”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“Cake and tea or death?”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
tags: humor
“I’ve learnt that you’ve got to be really non-apologetic... You’ve got to say, ‘Hi, I’m here, can I have a cup of tea? And one of those biscuits?’ If you say that, it’s fine. If you go in and say, ‘Excuse me, I’m a transvestite, I’ll be in the corner, I won’t be a problem, I’ll face away,’ everyone will go, ‘Oh-oh, problem case in the corner.’ So don’t apologise.”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“I did it on a wing and a prayer, and even though I didn’t have enough confidence to do the show, I had a theory; if I assume I have the confidence, I’ll tell everyone I’m doing it, and then people will come and we’ll actually do it. Once we’ve done it, I’ll have the confidence to do it again. It was some sort of weird positive-thinking confidence mantra because I had to get there.”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
“Pagans they were into sex, death, and religion in an interesting night-time telly type of way.”
Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill