Ian Fleming citáty

„Až bude po válce, nestrávím jedinou zimu v Anglii.“

„Lidé mě spojují s Jamesem Bondem jen proto, že mám rád míchaná vejce, košile s krátkým rukávem a podobné věci, které má rád i on.“

„Vzdálenost mezi šílenstvím a genialitou se měří pouze úspěchem.“

„Žiješ jen dvakrát:
Jednou, když se narodíš a jednou, když se podíváš smrti do tváře.“

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”

“A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.'…
Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?”

“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”

“All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.”

“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”

“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

“Never say 'no' to adventures.”

“Mine’s Bond – James Bond.”

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”

“The World Is Not Enough”

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”

“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”

“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”

“Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”

“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”

“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”

“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”

“… Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.”

“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”

“This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date. 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 Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”