Moonraker Quotes

“They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“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, Moonraker

“There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a Dali desert landscape in which three objets trouves reposed at carefully calculated random.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker