Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.
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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