Ian Fleming Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Girl, Hurt, Men

  Ian Fleming (1965). “More gilt-edged Bonds”

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• 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

  Sorry, Team, Writing

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 20: The Nature Of Evil, 1953.

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• And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

  Ian Fleming

  Hurt, Jobs, Men

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• 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

  Giving, Would Be, Pieces

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• Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Classic

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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• 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

  Long, Chinese, Nests

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• 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

  Home, Men, Gossip

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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

  Bored, Vices, Wake Up

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• 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

  Morning, Book, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Desire, Mountain, Found

  Ian Fleming (1963). “ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE”

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• Diamonds are forever.

  Ian Fleming

  Forever, Diamond

  Ian Fleming (2015). “The Diamond Smugglers”, New Canadian Library

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• 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

  Dark, Sunshine, Actors

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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