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‘I don’t drink tea. I hate it. It’s mud. Moreover it’s one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.’
Fear, Mr Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day. In a period of history when every tomorrow may be the evil day, it is fair enough to say that a fat proportion of the gold that is dug out of one corner of the earth is at once buried again in another corner.’
He turned towards Bond. ‘Do you like cats?’ His gaze was flat, incurious. ‘Sufficiently.’
‘Have you ever heard of Karate? No? Well that man is one of the three in the world who have achieved the Black Belt in Karate.
Those terms included putting Oddjob and any other Korean firmly in his place, which, in Bond’s estimation, was rather lower than apes in the mammalian hierarchy.