Ian Fleming Quotes
- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- A woman should be an illusion
- 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…
- Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near…
- 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…
- It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against…
- Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
- If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day…
- I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking…
- Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I…
- 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.…
- Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
- He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
- A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
- Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
- The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
- Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
- Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
- Shaken and not stirred.
- At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.