List of Ian Fleming Quotes

My Mental Hands Were Empty, And I Felt I Must Do Something As A Counterirritant Or Antibody To My Hysterical Alarm At Getting Married At The Age Of 43.

Against The Background Of This Luminous And Sparkling Stage Bond Stood In The Sunshine And Felt His Mission To Be Incongruous And Remote And His Dark Profession An Affront To His Fellow Actors.

Diamonds Are Forever.

Just As, At Least In One Religion, Accidia Is The First Of The Cardinal Sins, So Bordom, And Particularly The Incredible Circumstance Of Waking Up Bored, Was The Only Vice Bond Utterly Condemned.

These Blithering Women Who Thought They Could Do A Man's Work. Why The Hell Couldn't They Stay At Home And Mind Their Pots And Pans And Stick To Their Frocks And Gossip And Leave Men's Work To The Men.

She Explained To Me Later That She Must Have Been Possessed By A Subconscious Desire To Be Raped. Well She Found Me In The Mountains And She Was Raped - By Me.

Englishmen Are So Odd. They Are Like A Nest Of Chinese Boxes. It Takes A Very Long Time To Get To The Centre Of Them. When One Gets There The Result Is Unrewarding, But The Process Is Instructive And Entertaining.

And Don't Get Hurt,' [dexter] Added. 'there's No One To Help You Up There. And Don't Go Stirring Up A Lot Of Trouble For Us. This Case Isn't Ripe Yet. Until It Is, Our Policy With Mr Big Is 'live And Let Live'.' Bond Looked Quizzically At Captain Dexter In My Job,' He Said, 'when I Come Up Against A Man Like This One, I Have Another Motto. It's 'live And Let Die'.

Le Chiffre Was Serving A Wonderful Purpose, A Really Vital Purpose, Perhaps The Best And Highest Purpose Of All. By His Evil Existence, Which Foolishly I Have Helped To Destroy, He Was Creating A Norm Of Badness By Which, And By Which Alone, An Opposite Norm Of Goodness Could Exist. We Were Privileged, In Our Short Knowledge Of Him, To See And Estimate His Wickedness And We Emerge From The Acquaintanceship Better And More Virtuous Men.

I'm Getting Very Sorry For The Devil And His Disciples Such As The Good Le Chiffre. The Devil Has A Rotten Time And I Always Like To Be On The Side Of The Underdog. We Don't Give The Poor Chap A Chance...the Devil Had No Prophets To Write His Ten Commandments And No Team Of Authors To Write His Biography.

...goldfinger Could Not Have Known That High Tension Was Bond's Natural Way Of Life And That Pressure And Danger Relaxed Him.

Shaken And Not Stirred.