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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
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
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
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
— Christopher Lee
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
— 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
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
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
Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?
— 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
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
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
Garch a har?" -Oddjob, Goldfinger
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.
— 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
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — 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
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.
— 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 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
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