Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

— Ian Fleming

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

— Ian Fleming

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

— Ian Fleming

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

— Ian Fleming

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 millimeters.

— Ian Fleming

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

— Ian Fleming

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

— Ian Fleming

There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are the least good, or our own intuition.

— Ian Fleming

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

— Ian Fleming

Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.

— Ian Fleming