297 Quotes by Ian Fleming

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

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    Look my friend, I’ve got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?

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    Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.

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    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.

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    A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

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    AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind.

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    You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother’s womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world.

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    Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn’t mean that they’ll be careful with the secrets of yours.

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