Top 100 Quotes About Ian Fleming
#1. I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Tony Parsons
#2. Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
Christopher Lee
#3. Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
Christopher Lee
#4. I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading ... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.
Michael Riedel
#5. [On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Rosamond Lehmann
#6. I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
Bob Kane
#7. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Christopher Lee
#8. If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.
Edward Medina
#9. Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
Val Guest
#11. Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?
Ian Fleming
#12. I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming
#13. She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
Ian Fleming
#14. 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. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
Ian Fleming
#15. Never send a man where you can send a bullet.
Ian Fleming
#16. His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.
Ian Fleming
#17. In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
Ian Fleming
#18. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming
#19. One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.
Ian Fleming
#20. Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Ian Fleming
#21. 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 hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
Ian Fleming
#22. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
#23. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
Ian Fleming
#25. You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.
Ian Fleming
#26. Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming
#27. A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming
#28. Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation
Ian Fleming
#29. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.
Ian Fleming
#30. 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 it.
Ian Fleming
#31. Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to
Ian Fleming
#32. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
Ian Fleming
#33. 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.
Ian Fleming
#34. Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.
Ian Fleming
#35. It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.
Ian Fleming
#36. It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.
Ian Fleming
#39. A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
Ian Fleming
#40. I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.
Ian Fleming
#41. I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond.
Ian Fleming
#43. I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
Ian Fleming
#44. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.
Ian Fleming
#45. They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful. The music hammered its way into his pulse until he almost forgot what he was there for.
Ian Fleming
#46. They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.
Ian Fleming
#47. (At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on closer inspection to be a mighty stressed-concrete pillbox.) Military
Ian Fleming
#48. He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.
Ian Fleming
#49. And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.
Ian Fleming
#50. Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
Ian Fleming
#51. All concierges are venal. It is not their fault. They are trained to regard all hotel guests except maharajahs as potential cheats and thieves. They have as much concern for your comfort or well-being as crocodiles.
Ian Fleming
#52. 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 violence.
Ian Fleming
#53. Be that as it may, it is here that Le Chiffre will, we are confident, endeavour on or after 15 June to make a profit at baccarat of fifty million francs on a working capital of twenty-five million. (And, incidentally, save his life.)
Ian Fleming
#54. Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
Ian Fleming
#55. If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically.
Ian Fleming
#56. He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously.
Ian Fleming
#57. Where am I?' he asked and was surprised that his voice sounded firm and clear.
Ian Fleming
#58. It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.
Ian Fleming
#60. To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible.
Henry Chancellor
#61. Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
Ian Fleming
#62. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond
Ian Fleming
#63. Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
Ian Fleming
#64. Mathis turned off the radio and waved an affectionate farewell. The door slammed and silence settled on the room. Bond sat for a while by the window and enjoyed being alive.
Ian Fleming
#65. Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.
Ian Fleming
#67. Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
Ian Fleming
#68. He was used to oblique control and rather liked it. He felt it feather-bedded him a little, allowed him to give or take an hour or two in his communications with M.
Ian Fleming
#69. A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
Ian Fleming
#70. Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.
Ian Fleming
#71. And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
Ian Fleming
#72. 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.
Ian Fleming
#74. Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.
Ian Fleming
#75. I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.
Ian Fleming
#76. There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.
Ian Fleming
#78. He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
Ian Fleming
#79. 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 piercingly wonderful.
Ian Fleming
#80. Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough!
Ian Fleming
#81. I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions do anything, particularly when they taste bad.
Ian Fleming
#82. The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming
#83. Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.
Ian Fleming
#84. When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.
Ian Fleming
#85. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.
Ian Fleming
#86. And of course, Japan, with the highest suicide statistics in the world, a country with an unquenchable thirst for the bizarre, the cruel and the terrible, would provide the perfect last refuge for him.
Ian Fleming
#87. I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.
Ian Fleming
#88. A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.
Ian Fleming
#89. He wore a heavy black moustache and the backs of his hands on the rail were matted with black hair. Bond guessed that hair covered most of his squat body. Naked, Bond supposed, he would be an obscene object.
Ian Fleming
#90. Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.
Ian Fleming
#91. Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light.
Ian Fleming
#92. The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher.
Ian Fleming
#93. 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, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness
was to him shameful and hypocritical.
Ian Fleming
#94. 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 was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Ian Fleming
#95. There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
Ian Fleming
#96. I do believe I'm tight,' she said, 'how disgraceful. Please, James, don't be ashamed of me. I did so want to be gay. And I am gay.
Ian Fleming
#97. Bond awoke in his own room at dawn and for a time he lay and stroked his memories.
Ian Fleming
#98. 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 imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?
Ian Fleming
#99. AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind.
Ian Fleming
#100. How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face!
Ian Fleming
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