They want us dead,′ said Bond calmly. ‘So we have to stay alive.
Prohibition is the trigger of crime.
Look my friend, I’ve got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?
Oh, it’s all been such a lark.
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.
There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.
Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn’t think that was quite proper.
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
This girl will only do these things on one condition.’ M.’s eyes narrowed until they were fierce, significant slits. ‘That you go out to Istanbul and bring her and the machine back to England.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
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.
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
Bond didn’t defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.