Quote by Ian Fleming Download Open image ““It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”” — Ian Fleming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.” — James Maguire Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
