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“A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway.” (Casino Royale Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Above all, he liked it that everything was one’s own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won’t wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Bond didn’t defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Bond’s mind was clear again. By a miracle he had survived a devastating wound. He could feel his armpits still wet with the fear of it. But the success of his gambit with the chair had wiped out all memories of the dreadful valley of defeat through which he had just passed.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Each day the atmosphere became more hateful. It seemed fantastic to Bond that human relationships could collapse into dust overnight and he searched his mind again and again for a reason.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“For an instant he felt nettled at the irony, the lightest shadow of a snub, with which she had met his decisiveness, and at the way he had risen to her quick glance. But it was only an infinitesimal clink of foils and as the bowing maitre d’hotel led them through the crowded room, it was forgotten as Bond in her wake watched the heads of the diners turn to look at her.” (Casino Royale Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“However that may be, it is clear that he could have found many investments more savoury than prostitution, if he had not been tempted by the by-product of unlimited women for his personal use. Fate rebuked him with terrifying swiftness.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,’ he said philosophically.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“If the decision is unfavourable, the only alternative would be to place our information and our recommendations in the hands of the Deuxième Bureau or of our American colleagues of the Combined Intelligence Agency in Washington. Both of these organizations would doubtless be delighted to take over the scheme.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“People are islands,’ she said. ‘They don’t really touch. However close they are, they’re really quite separate. Even if they’ve been married for fifty years.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“She kept on patching up the edifice of her deceit until Bond wanted to spank her and tell her to relax and tell the truth. Instead he just gave her a reassuring pat on the back outside her room and told her to hurry up and have her bathe. Then he went on to his room.” (Casino Royale Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.’ He laughed. ‘But don’t let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tires caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën’s exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“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.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
“Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
