Ian Fleming, well known for his James Bond spy novels, was a British novelist, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.
Best Ian Fleming Quotes
“The World Is Not Enough.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“I am a poet in deeds – not often in words.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Everything I write has a precedent in truth.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
Top Ian Fleming Quotes
“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.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Never say ‘no’ to adventures.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
Famous Ian Fleming Quotes
“It reads better than it lives.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Diamonds are forever.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
Popular Ian Fleming Quotes
“Bond didn’t defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure – the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“And then one day when you’re playing your little game you’ll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I’d ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“A woman should be an illusion.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
Inspiring Ian Fleming Quotes
“These blithering women who thought they could do a man’s work. Why the hell couldn’t they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men’s work to the men.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“I’m not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“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.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Mine’s Bond – James Bond.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
“Never send a man where you can send a bullet.” ~ (Ian Fleming).
