Ian Fleming Quotes Page 2

“I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone: This Man Died from Living Too Much.”

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

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

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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