Quotes from Ian Fleming

You've interrupted my plans for the last time, Mr. Bond.

Breakfast was Bond's favourite meal of the day. When he was stationed in London it was always the same. It consisted of very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxford Street, brewed in an American Chemex, of which he drank two large cups, black and without sugar.

I shouldn't do it if I were you, Doctor No. They're a tenacious lot of people in my Service. If anything happens to me and the girl, you'll find Crab Key's a very small and naked little island.

You start to die the moment you are boirn

He hated Virginia tobacco

Ir ?oti skumji mazg?t ve­Ã"¼u, ja taj? nav neviena vÄ«rieÅ¡a krekla.

Clausewitz's first principle was to have a secure base. From there one proceeds to freedom of action.

The world is too public. These things can only be secured in privacy. You talk of kings and presidents. How much power do they possess? As much as their people will allow them. Who in the world has the power of life or death over his people? Now that Stalin is dead, can you name any man except myself? And how do I possess that power, that sovereignty? Through privacy. Through the fact that nobody knows. Through the fact that I have to account to no one.

looked at her and at the streaks of his blood down her face he prayed that her eyes would open.

I'm the world's authority on giving up smoking. I do it constantly.

happy as a clam.

That's no way to treat adventures. Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Sehen sie her, mein Kapitän.

Now the pieces in the puzzle fell firmly into place. For this it was certainly worth scaring away a few birds and wiping out a few people. Privacy? Of course Doctor No would have to kill him and the girl. Power? This was it. Doctor No had really got himself into business.

Seems he'd cornered a very valuable ore called Columbite. Everybody was wanting the stuff. It's got an extraordinarily high melting point. Jet engines can't be made without it. There's very little of it in the world, only a few thousand tons are produced every year, mostly as a by-product of the Nigerian tin mines.

patriotism comes along and makes it seem fairly all right, but this country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date. 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 called communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

It was the puritan in him that couldn't take it.

encrusted with glittering seashore properties the boatman said cost £400 per foot of beach frontage

Well, if he had to die anyway, he might as well try it the hard way.

It was as if Goldfinger had been put together with bits of other people's bodies.

The world is not enough.

It just occurred to me that life's too short. Plenty of time to watch the calories when one goes to heaven.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother's womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world. Perhaps they'll even let you get to Jamaica tonight.

Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.