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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1367c5b | There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy. | cards cheaters elegance | Ian Fleming | |
| 9d23304 | I was just running away from the person I'd been for the past five years. I wasn't particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face. | james-bond | Ian Fleming | |
| f073e53 | 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. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6c04042 | Don't lose faith in your stars. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 3765ab9 | Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 24c716c | The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service. | Ian Fleming | ||
| cbe5843 | Damn you," said Bond. "You..." She put her hand over his mouth. "'Allumeuse' is the nice word for it," she said. "It is fun for me to be able to tease such a strong silent man. You burn with such an angry flame. It is the only game I have to play with you and I shan't be able to play it for long. How many days until your hand is well again?" Bond bit hard into the soft hand over his mouth. She gave a little scream. "Not many," said Bond. "A.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2eaffae | He found something grisly in the inevitability of the pattern of each affair. The conventional parabola - sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness - was to him shameful and hypocritical. Even more he shunned the 'mise-en-scene' for each of these acts in the play - the meeting at a party, the.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 46051b8 | You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 7ea3f08 | Continue, my dear friend. It is interesting for me to see this new Bond. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining. Continue. Develop your arguments. There may be something I can use to my own chief the next time I want to get out of an unpleasant job.' He grinned maliciou.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2dbab46 | Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. | ominous | Ian Fleming | |
| 756798b | I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 267ae7b | They sat for a time listening to the music and then Bond turned to Vesper: 'It's wonderful sitting here with you and knowing the job's finished. It's a lovely end to the day - the prize-giving.' He expected her to smile. She said: 'Yes, isn't it,' in a rather brittle voice. She seemed to be listening carefully to the music. One elbow rested on the table and her hand supported her chin, but on the back of her hand and not on the palm, and Bo.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2ef0ff0 | I'm behaving like a pig,' she said happily. 'You always give me all the things I like best. I've never been so spoiled before.' She gazed across the terrace at the moonlit bay. 'I wish I deserved it.' Her voice had a wry undertone. 'What do you mean?' asked Bond surprised. 'Oh, I don't know. I suppose people get what they deserve, so perhaps I do deserve it.' She looked at him and smiled. Her eyes narrowed quizzically. 'You really don't kno.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 25c639f | And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6f81c7d | In the background there thudded always the hidden metronome of the Casino, ticking up its little treasure of one-per-cents with each spin of a wheel and each turn of a card - a pulsing fat-cat with a zero for a heart. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 589fb2b | There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a D.. | dali missile weapon | Ian Fleming | |
| 36fdc04 | Garch ahar? | Ian Fleming | ||
| ba8bcbd | In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the si.. | fate flying hurricane-room plane safety | Ian Fleming | |
| d02346c | Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world. | smell sulphur | Ian Fleming | |
| ef4e13f | The bitch is dead. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 41ce6b1 | Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 0e0545e | People are so damn sensitive about colour around here that you can't even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro. | Ian Fleming | ||
| a7ff646 | All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the artists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of their purpose? Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation of energy, fragmentation of vision, loss.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| ac1421a | Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 44f27b8 | clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 12d79e4 | Only law firm out there's called Smith and Wesson. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5e26ed2 | It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains. | Ian Fleming | ||
| d955a77 | A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience. | depression faith posttraumatic-stress-disorder spiritual-warfare | Ian Fleming | |
| f0343d3 | I prefer to regard myself as one who has the ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people. | Ian Fleming | ||
| bdf5fbd | Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in love and have a mistress or a wife and children to look after, it will all seem easier." He opened the door but stopped on the threshold. "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. .. | evil james-bond machine principals | Ian Fleming | |
| c6d7c5f | Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn't mean that they'll be careful with the secrets of yours. | Ian Fleming | ||
| c1e4d2a | You must forgive me,' he said. 'I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 22bc6ba | Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1f7aa6f | I decided on moustaches. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 31f6156 | Tell me this is a nightmare | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 478b441 | you sound like a hen with diarrhea. There's only one truth, and it's annihilation. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| 88bc965 | I like the way everything is clear and concise, you'll always be forgiven but you must know the rules | forgiveness way-of-life | Rumer Godden | |
| 63447d7 | So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 65cd5c6 | I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. | children drinking life | Rumer Godden | |
| 2ad1413 | Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to the East. It was cold; the wetness was cold on her hands and she felt her skirt dragging around her ankles... the light spread, there were long lines of cloud in the sky and presently above them the outline of the snow peaks appeared, cold and hard as if they were made of iron; they turned from black to grey to white whi.. | himalayas mountains | Rumer Godden | |
| d2188d8 | Neither man spoke of the past. Darcy could not rid himself of its power but Wickham lived for the moment, was sanguine about the future and reinvented the past to suit his audience, and Darcy could almost believe that, for the present, he had put the worst of it completely out of his mind. p.172 | P.D. James | ||
| e97d8a7 | With the death of what described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe. | ethics religion salvation | P.D. James | |
| 473fb9f | I thought I understood his kind: the petty bureaucrats of tyranny, men who relish the carefully measured meed of power permitted to them, who need to walk in the aura of manufactured fear, to know that the fear precedes them as they enter a room and will linger like a smell after they have left, but who have neither the sadism nor the courage for the ultimate cruelty. But they need their part of the action. It isn't sufficient for them, as .. | P.D. James |