Quotes from Ian Fleming

He was about six feet tall, slim and fit-looking. The eyes in the lean, slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. The narrowed, watchful eyes gave his good looks the dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me

SPECTRE Ã¢â'¬â€œ The Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. She

Quantum of Solace – the amount of comfort. Yes, I suppose you could say that all love and friendship is based in the end on that.

they came up with the idea that I should make a round-trip of the most exciting cities of the world and describe them in beautiful, beautiful prose. This could be accomplished, they said, within a month.

He continued to play like an automaton, never speaking except when he gave instructions in a low aside to the croupier at the opening of each new bank.

There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death…

When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it's obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero.

So you're going to Las Vegas,' said Bond. 'Funny coincidence department.' He told Leiter about his conversation with Shady Tree. 'Sure,' said Leiter. 'No coincidence about it. We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town. I

A typical load, decided Bond, while admitting that if two of their number, himself and Tiffany Case, had their secrets, there was no reason why many of these dull people should not also be bound on strange missions.

Bond sat down on his rumpled bed and lost himself in drink and gloomy reflections.

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When I get on an aircraft all I can see outside is wing.' The American next to her had said, 'Listen, Ma'am, you go right on seeing that wing. Start worrying when you can't see it any longer.

That was the end of the integrity of their love. The succeeding days were a shambles of falseness and hypocrisy, mingled with her tears and moments of animal passion to which she abandoned herself with a greed made indecent by the hollowness of their days.

Just shows how one can push a democracy around, what with habeas corpus and human rights and all the rest.

It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against.

Major Smythe remembered the hoary euphemism for the Secret Service. He said, with forced cheerfulness, 'Oh. The old firm?

A mile ahead the great eyes of the Mercedes hooded themselves as they went over the crest of Wrotham Hill and disappeared down into the moonlit panorama of the Weald of Kent.

there was no beatnik movement in Germany because there were now no traditions to revolt against;

complete standstill in all literary and artistic progress of any kind since Hitler because of the absence of Jews, the former leaven in the heavy German bread

the greatly exaggerated hullabaloo recently created, largely by newspapers wanting 'a story', about the resurgence of Nazism and anti-Semitism.

Now, at the Eldorado, for instance, and the Eden (where a homemade bomb went off, wounding three guests, ten minutes after we had left)

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

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 for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.