I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

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

I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

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

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.