Ian Fleming Quotes

“A dry martini. One. In a deep champagne goblet. 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?”

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”

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

“People are islands – they don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

“Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default.

We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuition.”

“Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”