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The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman
a matter of millimetres. — Ian Fleming

AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind. — Ian Fleming

In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him. — Ian Fleming

Don't lose faith in your stars. — Ian Fleming

'Those who deserve to die, he paused, 'die the death they deserve' - Mr Big — Ian Fleming

A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway. — Ian Fleming

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex. — Ian Fleming

Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff. — Ian Fleming

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. — Ian Fleming

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. — Ian Fleming

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. — Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence. — Christopher Lee

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. — Ian Fleming

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience. — Ian Fleming

Bond awoke in his own room at dawn and for a time he lay and stroked his memories. — Ian Fleming

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page. — Ian Fleming

You've interrupted my plans for the last time, Mr. Bond. — Ian Fleming

For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine. — Ian Fleming

must say that I think we can accept — Ian Fleming

The bitch is dead now. — Ian Fleming

Diamonds are forever. — Ian Fleming

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. — Ian Fleming

ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning. — Ian Fleming

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. — Ian Fleming

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. — Ian Fleming

The World Is Not Enough — Ian Fleming

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. — Ian Fleming

Bond smelt the smell of danger. — Ian Fleming

me. They found me. The — Ian Fleming

Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation — Ian Fleming

Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"? — Ian Fleming

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. — Ian Fleming

How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face! — Ian Fleming

Prohibition is the trigger of crime. — Ian Fleming

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. — Ian Fleming

Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows. — Ian Fleming

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger. — Ian Fleming

Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you? — Ian Fleming

Never say 'no' to adventures. — Ian Fleming

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence. — Ian Fleming

Garch a har?" -Oddjob, Goldfinger — Ian Fleming

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser. — Ian Fleming

Where am I?' he asked and was surprised that his voice sounded firm and clear. — Ian Fleming

He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards. — Ian Fleming

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. — Ian Fleming

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come. — Ian Fleming

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. — Ian Fleming

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

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 — Ian Fleming

Why not make it for always? — Ian Fleming

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. — Ian Fleming

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan. — Christopher Lee

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

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

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming. — Ian Fleming

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. — Ian Fleming

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence. — Ian Fleming

Shaken and not stirred. — Ian Fleming

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

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

power is the goal of all ambition, — Ian Fleming

Never send a man where you can send a bullet. — Ian Fleming

Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. — Ian Fleming

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

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. — Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. — Ian Fleming

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

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. — Ian Fleming

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

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

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. — Rosamond Lehmann

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

Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia. — Ian Fleming

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

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

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

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

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again. — Ian Fleming

Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to — Ian Fleming

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

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. — Ian Fleming

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

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

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

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

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. — Ian Fleming

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

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. — Edward Medina

Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses, — Ian Fleming

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

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery] — Ian Fleming

It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains. — Ian Fleming

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored. — Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action — Ian Fleming

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

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

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

Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper. — Ian Fleming

The safe, empty room sneered at him. — Ian Fleming