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“Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity.” (From Russia With Love Quotes)
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor’s face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. ‘This Man Died from Living Too Much’.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim’s head or Bond’s brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparatus of the West.” (From Russia With Love Quotes)
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“Out of the mouth of the huge, shadowed poster, between the great violet lips, half-open in ecstasy, the dark shape of a man emerged and hung down like a worm from the mouth of a corpse.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love
