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

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

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

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.

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

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due