297 Quotes by Ian Fleming

Put your guns away and get him out,’ he ordered brusquely. ‘I’ll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don’t want a corpse. And hurry up, it’s getting light.

During interrogation he committed suicide by swallowing a coat-button of compressed potassium cyanide.

I’m not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

He’s not a bad guy really, except he’s so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.

Benzedrine,’ he said. ‘I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. It’s what I shall need if I’m going to keep my wits about me tonight. It’s apt to make one a bit overconfident, but that’ll be a help too.

Bond awoke in his own room at dawn and for a time he lay and stroked his memories.

I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London.

THE SCENT and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension – becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.