Quotes by Ian Fleming

About Ian Fleming:

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Ian Fleming

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Ian Fleming

Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.

Ian Fleming

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Ian Fleming

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.

Ian Fleming

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I woul...

Ian Fleming

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't ca...

Ian Fleming

You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human conditi...

Ian Fleming

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would sprin...

Ian Fleming

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Ian Fleming

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Ian Fleming

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

Ian Fleming

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

Ian Fleming

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

Ian Fleming

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

Ian Fleming

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. No...

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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Ian Fleming

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

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A woman should be an illusion.

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Author Bio

  • NameIan Fleming
  • DescriptionEnglish author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
  • BornMay 28, 1908
  • DiedAugust 11, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Novelist