"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

"In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met."

"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."

"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."

"Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God."

"His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there."

"He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession."

"And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly."

"Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due."

"It reads better than it lives"

"He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success."

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

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

"Prohibition is the trigger of crime."

"...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him."

"Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet."

"The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser."

"Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it."

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

"The bitch is dead now."

"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."

"All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful."

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

"History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts."