Ian Fleming Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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

It reads better than it lives

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

She has black hair, blue eyes, and splendid ... er ... protuberances. Back and front,' he added.

Why not make it for always?

Clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Darling, the bath's absolutely right. Will you marry me?'
She snorted. 'You need a slave, not a wife.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

A woman should be an illusion.

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.

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously.

The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher.

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

The safe, empty room sneered at him.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

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.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.

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.

Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters.

Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

Never send a man where you can send a bullet.

power is the goal of all ambition,

If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
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I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.

He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.