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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
He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility. -- Ian Fleming
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. -- Ian Fleming
the deep voice held a hint of -- Ian Fleming
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
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
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
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. -- Ian Fleming
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
How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face! -- Ian Fleming
Bond again walked round the room. This time he carefully inspected the walls and the neighbourhood of the bed and the telephone. Why not take the room? Why would there be microphones or secret doors? What would be the point of them? -- Ian Fleming
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
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
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
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
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
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
The game, whatever it was, had to be played out. If the change of rooms had been the opening gambit, so much the better. The game had to begin somewhere. -- Ian Fleming
Bond's mind was clear again. By a miracle he had survived a devastating wound. He could feel his armpits still wet with the fear of it. But the success of his gambit with the chair had wiped out all memories of the dreadful valley of defeat through which he had just passed. -- Ian Fleming
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
The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service. -- Ian Fleming
She looked at him and saw that his nostrils were slightly flared. In other respects he seemed completely at ease, acknowledging cheerfully the greetings of the Casino functionaries. -- Ian Fleming
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. -- Ian Fleming
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
Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold. -- Ian Fleming
A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. -- Ian Fleming
Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again. -- Ian Fleming
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. -- Ian Fleming
Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed. -- Ian Fleming
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
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
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts. -- Ian Fleming
Bond swallowed. He looked over towards Vesper. Felix Leiter was again standing beside her. He grinned slightly and Bond smiled back and raised his hand from the table in a small gesture of benediction. -- Ian Fleming
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
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
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
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly. -- Ian Fleming
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. -- Ian Fleming
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
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
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
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery] -- Ian Fleming
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
A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ...
Just a moment. 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. Got it? -- Ian Fleming
From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that, when daylight went out, the ghosts of its dead were its only population. -- Ian Fleming
Don't lose faith in your stars. -- Ian Fleming
Vesper smiled at him. 'I like it,' she said. 'I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live. But it sounds rather schoolgirlish when one says it,' she added apologetically. -- Ian Fleming
Darling, the bath's absolutely right. Will you marry me?'
She snorted. 'You need a slave, not a wife. -- Ian Fleming
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
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book. -- Ian Fleming
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
For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. -- Ian Fleming
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. -- Ian Fleming
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. -- Ian Fleming
It reads better than it lives -- Ian Fleming
Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot. -- Ian Fleming
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired. -- Ian Fleming
He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. -- Ian Fleming
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
Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper. -- Ian Fleming
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. -- Ian Fleming
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored. -- Ian Fleming
Shaken and not stirred. -- Ian Fleming
It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains. -- Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. -- Ian Fleming
power is the goal of all ambition, -- Ian Fleming
I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond. -- Ian Fleming
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. -- Ian Fleming
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
Who is this man?'
'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.'
'No? Spelt like Yes?'
'That's right. -- Ian Fleming
What a man! He certainly seems to have the run of this country. Just shows how one can push a democracy around, what with habeas corpus and human rights and all the rest. Glad we haven't got him on our hands in England. -- Ian Fleming
Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"? -- Ian Fleming
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
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
Garch a har?" -Oddjob, Goldfinger -- Ian Fleming
I was just running away from the person I'd been for the past five years. I wasn't particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face. -- Ian Fleming
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. -- Ian Fleming
ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning. -- Ian Fleming
Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust. -- Ian Fleming
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. -- Ian Fleming
Diamonds are forever. -- Ian Fleming
Bond awoke in his own room at dawn and for a time he lay and stroked his memories. -- Ian Fleming
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
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. -- Ian Fleming
Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London. -- Ian Fleming
Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. -- Ian Fleming
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
You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face -- Ian Fleming
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
The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher. -- Ian Fleming
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
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. -- Ian Fleming
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. -- Ian Fleming
The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. -- Ian Fleming
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive. -- Ian Fleming
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
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
He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget. -- Ian Fleming
The bitch is dead now. -- Ian Fleming
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. -- Ian Fleming
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
He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards. -- Ian Fleming
Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff. -- Ian Fleming
me. They found me. The -- Ian Fleming
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss. -- Ian Fleming
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. -- Ian Fleming
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. -- Ian Fleming
He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex. -- Ian Fleming
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. -- Ian Fleming
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
Clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires. -- Ian Fleming
His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there. -- Ian Fleming
He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him. -- Ian Fleming
Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses, -- Ian Fleming
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
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
It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. -- Ian Fleming
Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead. -- 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 -- Ian Fleming
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
Head of S., thought Bond. They're certainly giving me the red carpet treatment. -- Ian Fleming
In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come. -- Ian Fleming
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. -- Ian Fleming
Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia. -- Ian Fleming
If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically. -- Ian Fleming
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'. -- Ian Fleming
For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine. -- Ian Fleming
Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world. -- Ian Fleming
Never send a man where you can send a bullet. -- Ian Fleming
I prefer to regard myself as one who has the ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people. -- Ian Fleming
He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure. -- Ian Fleming
Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. -- Ian Fleming
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites. -- Ian Fleming
Oh, it's all been such a lark. -- Ian Fleming
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. -- Ian Fleming
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. -- Ian Fleming
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. -- Ian Fleming
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. -- Ian Fleming
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
Out of the mouth of the huge, shadowed poster, between the great violet lips, half-open in ecstasy, the dark shape of a man emerged and hung down like a worm from the mouth of a corpse. -- Ian Fleming
Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. -- Ian Fleming
'Those who deserve to die, he paused, 'die the death they deserve' - Mr Big -- Ian Fleming
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
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
Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you? -- Ian Fleming
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success -- Ian Fleming
Bond smelt the smell of danger. -- Ian Fleming
Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve. -- Ian Fleming
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. -- Ian Fleming
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. -- Ian Fleming
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman
a matter of millimetres. -- Ian Fleming
Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical. -- Ian Fleming
Prohibition is the trigger of crime. -- Ian Fleming
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive. -- Ian Fleming
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
A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway. -- Ian Fleming
Why not make it for always? -- Ian Fleming
These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men. -- Ian Fleming
AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind. -- Ian Fleming
He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously. -- Ian Fleming
Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough! -- Ian Fleming
Where am I?' he asked and was surprised that his voice sounded firm and clear. -- Ian Fleming
A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience. -- Ian Fleming
In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met. -- Ian Fleming
Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to -- Ian Fleming
Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation -- Ian Fleming
It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors. -- Ian Fleming
If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. -- Ian Fleming
Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room. -- Ian Fleming
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser. -- Ian Fleming
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out. -- Ian Fleming
What's your name?"
"Bond. James Bond. What's yours?"
She reflected "Rider."
"What Rider?"
"Honeychile."
Bond smiled. -- Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. -- Ian Fleming
Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run. -- Ian Fleming
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. -- Ian Fleming
Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. -- Ian Fleming
In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence. -- Ian Fleming
The World Is Not Enough -- Ian Fleming
You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming. -- Ian Fleming
Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes. -- Ian Fleming
She has black hair, blue eyes, and splendid ... er ... protuberances. Back and front,' he added. -- Ian Fleming
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. -- Ian Fleming
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me. -- Ian Fleming
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. -- Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures. -- Ian Fleming
Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. -- Ian Fleming
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action -- Ian Fleming
A woman should be an illusion. -- Ian Fleming
Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of. -- Ian Fleming
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger. -- Ian Fleming
must say that I think we can accept -- Ian Fleming
In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him. -- Ian Fleming
The safe, empty room sneered at him. -- Ian Fleming
You've interrupted my plans for the last time, Mr. Bond. -- Ian Fleming
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. -- Ian Fleming
