All Ian Fleming Quotes
- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. Days
- A woman should be an illusion 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… Age
- 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… Ago
- 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… Actors
- 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… Advance
- Everything I write has a precedent in truth. Inspirational
- 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… Aren
- 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… Alone
- 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… Acquaintanceship
- 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.… Boxes
- Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due Disaster
- He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex. Inspirational
- A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. Choice
- Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. Always Think
- The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Casino
- Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. Light
- Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. Breakfast
- Shaken and not stirred. Classic
- At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. Bad
- Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. Backwards
- When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I… Bond
- Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out. Bond
- 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… All
- 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. Bond