It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff.
During interrogation he committed suicide by swallowing a coat-button of compressed potassium cyanide.
Women are often meticulous and safe drivers, but they are very seldom first-class. In general, Bond regarded them as a mild hazard and he always gave them plenty of road and was ready for the unpredic...
Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.
She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. ‘I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himsel...
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
In my job,’ he said, ‘when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It’s live and let die.
If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.
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,...
I expect because I think I can handle life better on my own. Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
I don’t care the hell what other people eat so long as they enjoy it. I can’t stand sad eaters and sad drinkers.
His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement.
Bond again walked round the room. This time he carefully inspected the walls and the neighbourhood of the bed and the telephone. Why not take the room? Why would there be microphones or secret doors?...
The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.
The back two had fanned out a step to have a clear field of fire. Three revolvers, ungainly with their sausage-shaped silencers, whipped out of holsters concealed among the rags. With disciplined prec...
Mathis turned off the radio and waved an affectionate farewell. The door slammed and silence settled on the room. Bond sat for a while by the window and enjoyed being alive.
If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,’ he said philosophically.
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 woul...
Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.