When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.
Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.’ Mathis
Don't lose faith in your stars.
You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face
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 effa...
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Bond frowned. ‘It’s not difficult to get a Double O number if you’re prepared to kill people,’ he said. ‘That’s all the meaning it has. It’s nothing to be particularly proud of.
I decided on moustaches.
Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
America’s a civilized country. More or less. What
The moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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; w...
Ever heard of The House of Diamonds?