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One Quotes by Ian Fleming
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure…
- But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab…
- Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not…
- Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged,…
- I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of…
- And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
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