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Ian Fleming

Read through the most famous quotes from Ian Fleming




Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.


— Ian Fleming


#careers #marriage #women #marriage

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.


— Ian Fleming


#death #james-bond #death

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.


— Ian Fleming


#success #inspirational

The game, whatever it was, had to be played out. If the change of rooms had been the opening gambit, so much the better. The game had to begin somewhere.


— Ian Fleming


#change

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


#golf #insightful #beauty

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.


— Ian Fleming


#i #prolong #shall #them #trying

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.


— Ian Fleming


#death #face #live #look #once

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.


— Ian Fleming


#dangerous #ends #horse #middle #uncomfortable

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.


— Ian Fleming


#because #best #doing #last #last time

A woman should be an illusion.


— Ian Fleming


#should #woman






About Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming Quotes




Did you know about Ian Fleming?

In 1941–42 Admiral Godfrey put Fleming in charge of Operation Golden Eye a plan to maintain an intelligence framework in Spain in the event of a German takeover of the territory. Post-war
Upon Fleming's demobilisation in May 1945 he became the Foreign Manager in the Kemsley newspaper group which at the time owned The Sunday Times. Much of the trip was spent identifying opportunities for 30AU in the Pacific although the unit ultimately saw little action because of the Japanese surrender.

It was a success with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. In 2008 The Times ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". He was also involved in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units 30 Assault Unit and T-Force.

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