Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. 
Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again. 
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. 
Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual. 
Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. 
I do believe I'm tight,' she said, 'how disgraceful. Please, James, don't be ashamed of me. I did so want to be gay. And I am gay. 
He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards. 
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. 
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'. 
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way. 
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly. 
His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there. 
The safe, empty room sneered at him. 
You only live twice:Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher. 
He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously. 
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. 
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out. 
He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure. 
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. 
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. 
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. 
The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service. ![Ian Fleming quotes: I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/ian-fleming-quotes-1067523.jpg "Ian Fleming quotes: I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]")
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery] 
In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come. 
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive. 
Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room. 
Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed. 
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. 
If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically. 
power is the goal of all ambition, 
Never send a man where you can send a bullet. 
You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming. 
Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical. 
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. 
Why not make it for always? 
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. 
Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond 
Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world. 
Oh, it's all been such a lark. 
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. 
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive. 
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. 
Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot. 
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. 
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it. 
Clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires. 
She has black hair, blue eyes, and splendid ... er ... protuberances. Back and front,' he added. 
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. 
A woman should be an illusion. 
It reads better than it lives 
Darling, the bath's absolutely right. Will you marry me?'She snorted. 'You need a slave, not a wife.
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. 
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 