Ian Fleming Quotes

“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, Casino Royale

topic:love grief

“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, Casino Royale

topic:women men work

“For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:fear

“the beginning of torture is the worst. There is a parabola of agony. A crescendo leading up to a peak and then the nerves are blunted and react progressively less until unconsciousness and death.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:pain

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

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:change history

“However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“For an hour in that room with Le Chiffre the certainty of impotence had been beaten into him and a scar had been left on his mind that could only be healed by experience.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:experience

“In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:mind

“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:thought silence

“He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

topic:enemy

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