All Ian Fleming Quotes
- I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. Ambition
- If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive. Arrive
- As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere,… Both
- I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having… Agony
- People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James… Appetite
- Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was… Book
- A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. Dry
- Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Action
- One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about… Appropriated
- Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Add
- Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. American
- It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world. All
- Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. Beings
- He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. Agent
- Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. Everyone
- Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. All
- The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… Bed
- People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. Been
- Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… All
- Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy… Big
- I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. Deeds
- Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. Awareness
- Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that… Cost
- ...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. Danger
- Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger… All