Eddie Izzard Quotes

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

You have to be honest about who you are.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

I can say whatever it is that I feel.