297 Quotes by Ian Fleming

His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement.

Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.

It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference.

The thin man had hit him a hard professional cutting blow with the edge of the hand. There was something rather deadly about his accuracy and lack of effort. He was now again lying back, his eyes closed. He was a man to make you afraid, an evil man. Bond hoped he might get a chance of killing him.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure – the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

I do believe I’m tight,’ she said, ’how disgraceful. Please, James, don’t be ashamed of me. I did so want to be gay. And I am gay.

Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me.

Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let’s just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely. – Vivienne Michel.