Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming Quotes
53 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman - a matter of millimetres.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
It was domination by a beauty so pure that it held a kind of truth, a divine authority before which all other material things turned, like the bit of quartz, to clay. In these few minutes Bond understood the myth of diamonds, and he knew that he would never forget what he had suddenly seen inside the heart of this stone.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
You are right, Mr. Bond. That is just what I am, a maniac. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania that drives them towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
"Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. "But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine."
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn't care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn't care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Bond insisted ordering Leiter's Haig-and-Haig "on the rocks" and then he looked carefully at the barman. "A Dry Martini", he said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet." "Oui, monsieur." "Just a moment. Three measures of Gordons, 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?" "Certainly, monsieur." The barman seemed pleased with the idea.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Ian Fleming
Source
Report...
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
Ian Fleming
1
2
3
Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Ian Fleming
Born:
May 28, 1908
Died:
August 12, 1964
(aged 56)
Bio:
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co.
Known for:
Casino Royale (1953)
The James Bond Books
From Russia, with Love (1957)
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)
Most used words:
bond
time
women
men
woman
find
pleasure
black
people
three
love
kiss
persons
straight
bed
Ian Fleming on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Ian Fleming Quotes
Ian Fleming Short Quotes
English Journalist Quotes
Journalist Quotes
20th-century Journalist Quotes
Related People
Sean Connery
Scottish Actor
Timothy Dalton
British Actor
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes