297 Quotes by Ian Fleming

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

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'.

It reads better than it lives

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

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.

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.