Quotes from Ian Fleming

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

MIDNIGHT AMONG THE WORMS

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big Ã¢â'¬â€œ 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.

The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher.

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.

James, has it ever occurred to you that every man in the fleet knows what to do except the commanding admiral?

Mr Scaramanga looked up at him under lizard eyelids. 'No. If you figure the evening's not going so good, make it go better. That's what you're being paid for. You act as if you know Jamaica. Okay. Get these people off the pad.' It was many years since James Bond had accepted a 'dare'.

I wouldn't be surprised if in fifty years' time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!

Goldfinger said, Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.' Mathis

The first law for a secret agent is to get his geography right, his means of access and exit, and assure his communications with the outside world.

he was glad to be alone for a moment and by welcomed by his pyjamas

There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt.

Social errors made no impression on Bond

he upended his suitcase just inside the door and balanced the three glasses on top of it. It was a simple booby trap but it would give him all the warning he needed.

It's to the effect that America has progressed from infancy to senility without having passed through a period of maturity.

If you find yourself dead in your bed tonight,' laughed Bond, 'you'll know who did it.

And now he knew that … the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would have the sweet tang of rape.

Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.

She had the gay, bold, forthcoming looks the Viennese are supposed to have and seldom do.

Four bad rubbers would be double his income for a year. If something went wrong he'd look pretty stupid. Have to borrow from M. And M wasn't a particularly rich man. Suddenly he saw that this ridiculous game might end in a very nasty mess.

Mundus Vult Decipi

Not for the first time, Bond felt his spine crawl at the cold, brilliant efficiency of the Soviet machine, and at the fear of death and torture which made it work and of which the supreme engine was SMERSH--SMERSH, the very whisper of death.

I don't think Castro can hold out much longer.