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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8afcfda | And of course, Japan, with the highest suicide statistics in the world, a country with an unquenchable thirst for the bizarre, the cruel and the terrible, would provide the perfect last refuge for him. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1f6e8e6 | IT WAS twelve o'clock when Bond left the Splendide and the clock on the 'mairie' was stumbling through its midday carillon. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5aaa514 | He pulled out a chair and while they sat down he beckoned to a waiter and despite Mathis's expostulations insisted on ordering the drinks - a 'fine a l'eau' for Mathis and a 'bacardi' for the girl. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 4ae8c19 | A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' 'Oui, monsieur.' '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? | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1401da2 | AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2c50292 | She has black hair, blue eyes, and splendid ... er ... protuberances. Back and front,' he added. | Ian Fleming | ||
| f22542f | when the stresses are too great for the tired metal, when the ground mechanic who checks the de-icing equipment is crossed in love and skimps his job, way back in London, Idlewild, Gander, Montreal; when those or many things happen, then the little warm room with propellers in front falls straight down out of the sky into the sea or on to the land, heavier than air, fallible, vain. And the forty little heavier-than-air people, fallible with.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 9f881a0 | Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 4830ef8 | A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 20a59ff | He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2b31589 | How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face! | Ian Fleming | ||
| b9c5d26 | Mathis had been unable to enlighten him. 'Unless you have bought him yourself,' he had said, 'you must assume that he has been bought by the other side. All concierges are venal. It is not their fault. They are trained to regard all hotel guests except maharajahs as potential cheats and thieves. They have as much concern for your comfort or well-being as crocodiles. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1daae39 | heroin pipeline whose outlet is Beirut. These eighteen men, all experts in conspiracy, in the highest ranges of secret communication and action and, above all, of silence, also shared one supreme virtue - every man had a solid cover. Every man possessed a valid passport with up-to-date visas for the principal countries in the world, and an entirely clean sheet with Interpol and with their respective national police forces. That factor alone.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| ea7454c | He was used to oblique control and rather liked it. He felt it feather-bedded him a little, allowed him to give or take an hour or two in his communications with M. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 3fc1831 | The safe, empty room sneered at him. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 914d6c8 | Vesper smiled at him. 'I like it,' she said. 'I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live. But it sounds rather schoolgirlish when one says it,' she added apologetically. | Ian Fleming | ||
| e05fda0 | He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6c7d3a0 | She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story. | Ian Fleming | ||
| fb5944e | THERE ARE moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death; and times when, as was now the case, he is a guest in the territory of an allied Secret Service. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 4c16d0c | He put down the receiver and looked vaguely at the paper in his hand. It was a rough piece of white wrapping paper. Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words: HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIM | bond death message shark threat | Ian Fleming | |
| 8aeadcc | His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement. | Ian Fleming | ||
| db828d6 | The thin man had hit him a hard professional cutting blow with the edge of the hand. There was something rather deadly about his accuracy and lack of effort. He was now again lying back, his eyes closed. He was a man to make you afraid, an evil man. Bond hoped he might get a chance of killing him. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 771322b | He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight. | Ian Fleming | ||
| e0bdf94 | By now it was dawn - about five o'clock, Bond guessed - and he reflected that a mile or two on was the turning to Le Chiffre's villa. He had not thought that they would take Vesper there. Now that he realized that Vesper had only been a sprat to catch a mackerel the whole picture became clear. | Ian Fleming | ||
| aebbecc | For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1b62fd2 | Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 06f94e2 | We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 0b50452 | Now it's your turn again,' she said. 'Buy me another drink and then tell me what sort of a woman you think would add to you.' Bond gave his order to the steward. He lit a cigarette and turned back to her. 'Somebody who can make Sauce Bearnaise as well as love,' he said. 'Holy mackerel! Just any old dumb hag who can cook and lie on her back? | Ian Fleming | ||
| 62662af | Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let's just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely. -- Vivienne Michel | bond crime romance spy thriller | Ian Fleming | |
| f122a7e | The goal of Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee was to investigate all things related to German science. Target types ran the gamut: radar, missiles, aircraft, medicine, bombs and fuses, chemical and biological weapons labs. And while CIOS remained an official joint venture, there were other groups in the mix, with competing interests at hand. Running parallel to CIOS operations were dozens of secret intelligence-gathering operati.. | Annie Jacobsen | ||
| 6a106d3 | Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 8fab3af | Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. It's what I shall need if I'm going to keep my wits about me tonight. It's apt to make one a bit overconfident, but that'll be a help too. | Ian Fleming | ||
| c59dd17 | Bond remembered the dictum of the pros: 'It's never too early to start winning. | Ian Fleming | ||
| b91ee6b | I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. | Ian Fleming | ||
| de03c19 | If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5ea215a | The man who was only a silhouette. She | Ian Fleming | ||
| 57c8855 | standing back a few yards from a dusty road, was almost identical. But on this side the four windows were barred, and the central door was of oak. The villa had two medium-sized bedrooms on the upper floor and on the ground floor a sitting-room and a kitchen, part of which was walled off into a lavatory. There was no bathroom. The drowsy luxurious silence of early afternoon was broken by the sound of a car coming down the road. It stopped i.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6f63b6c | W]hen one's young, it seems very easy to distinguish between right and wrong, but as one gets older it becomes more difficult. At school it's easy to pick out one's own villains and heroes and one grows up wanting to be a hero and kill the villains. | good heroes villains youth | Ian Fleming | |
| e240f49 | I'm afraid I'm a restless person | restless | Madeleine Brent | |
| cc79274 | Here is something I want you to remember: when a dreadful thing happens to a person as it has happened to you, there are 2 ways to take it. You can let it make you cross and bitter or you can accept it, and because you know what it is like to be hurt very badly, let it make you a nicer person. | Noel Streatfeild | ||
| 5ffeb15 | and as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already separated from the people around her. Tomorrow I shall not be among you anymore; not of you but mysteriously still with you, thought Philippa. As Lady Abbess of Brede had said, "People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in us." | this-house-of-breder | Rumer Godden | |
| a41740c | Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong things, and then the dolls are hurt and abused and lost; and when this happens dolls cannot speak, nor do anything except be hurt and abused and lost. If you have any dolls, you should remember that. | Rumer Godden | ||
| dce7c3f | She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers. Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the children, pointing to the angels. The baby is the Number One Lord Jesus Christ,' Ayah told them. But he hasn't any clothes on! Aren't they going to give Him anything? Not a little red robe? Not a bit of melted butter?' | potato | Rumer Godden | |
| a08a533 | remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know, | Rumer Godden |