The Spy Who Loved Me Quotes

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“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.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“I was just running away from the person I'd been for the past five years. I wasn't particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let's just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely. -- Vivienne Michel”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“It's all these old people about. They ought to hand the world over to younger people who haven't got the idea of war stuck in their subconscious. As if it were the only solution... It's out of date-Stone Age stuff.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“He was about six feet tall, slim and fit-looking. The eyes in the lean, slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. The narrowed, watchful eyes gave his good looks the dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“Only two weeks later we were lovers. It was somehow inevitable.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me