Ian Fleming was a British naval intelligence officer and journalist. He is most popularly known as the author and creator of the character James Bond in the series of spy novels. He was considered to be a loner at work, a dedicated golfer and a book collector. Ian incorporated the lifestyle and traits of his counterparts who were real spies during the war to write his novels. It was also rumored that Ian created the character of James Bond to ward off his midlife crises. His thoughts and wordsspken by his characters have become famous quotations. Ian bought himself the perfect getaway in Jamaica, and named it the Goldeneye. This was the estate where he created the 14 books of 007, under the title ‘Birds of the West Indies’. ‘Goldfinger’ was the first movie to use his story, but sadly he could not see the fame it derived as he died 14 days before its release. The works, sayings, writings, and quotations by this great writer will surely keep you motivated. Read on the collection of his quotes.
You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
Ian Fleming
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.
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.
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 such a wonderful machine.
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.
In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
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
You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.
Ian Fleming
Why not make it for always?
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.
What's your name?"
"Bond. James Bond. What's yours?"
She reflected "Rider."
"What Rider?"
"Honeychile."
Bond smiled.
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
'Those who deserve to die, he paused, 'die the death they deserve' " - Mr Big
Ian Fleming
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
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.
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
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
Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?
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.
