Ian Fleming Quotes

Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from so...

Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself D...

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that i...

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anythin...

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, eit...

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a...

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show o...

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. We...

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body t...

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countl...

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions t...

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

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism ...

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have...

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quit...

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blam...

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one...

Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains fr...

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most ...

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

There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about h...

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or...

When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relap...

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

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel...

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particu...

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will f...

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of ...

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

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the...

Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It had...

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beauti...

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressur...

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as...

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. ...

Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the p...

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to t...

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

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

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