When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due - Ian Fleming
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
- Ian Fleming
It reads better than it lives - Ian Fleming
It reads better than it lives
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser. - Ian Fleming
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. - Ian Fleming
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Never say 'no' to adventures. - Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures.
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. - Ian Fleming
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Co… - Ian Fleming
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Co…
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. - Ian Fleming
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian Fleming
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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