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“Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” (Goldfinger Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“I am a poet in deeds-not often in words.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“I don’t drink tea. I hate it. It’s mud. Moreover it’s one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“I wouldn’t be surprised if in fifty years’ time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.” (Goldfinger Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman –a matter of millimetres.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
“What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger
