Ian Lancaster Fleming, 1908 - 1964
"For Your Eyes Only", oil by Constance Vlahoulis
Born: 28 May 1908, Mayfair, London, England, UK
Died: 12 August 1964, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Fleming's grandfather was an associate of J.P. Morgan, his father was a Tory politician who was elected to Parliament in 1910 but died in the first world war. His older brother was the travel writer Peter Fleming who occasionally wrote some science fiction. Fleming was educated at Eton, although he was expelled following "some alleged trouble with one of the boys' maids". He went on to Sandhurst Military Academy but resigned without gaining a commission, then studied languages at Munich (German) and Geneva (French) universities. He was a journalist with Reuters, including some time at Moscow, before returning to London and the financial sector where he was not particularly successful as a stock broker. As the war approached he joined the Navy and became assistant to Admiral John H. Godfrey, the Director of Naval Intelligence, who became the model for "M". Although he did receive field training, including attaching a mine to the hull of a ship from underwater, his actual work was in planning and administration. He bought an estate in Jamaica, which he called Goldeneye, was foreign manager for Kemsley Newspapers, and in 1952 he married Ann Rothermere whose father owned the Daily Mail. His first James Bond novel was Casino Royale in 1953, he wrote thirteen more before being struck down by a heart attack on a golf course in Kent.
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- A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. permalink
Ian Fleming - A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. permalink
Ian Fleming - Dr. No (1958) - A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. permalink
Ian Fleming - A woman should be an illusion. permalink
Ian Fleming - Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. permalink
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (1953) - Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world. permalink
Ian Fleming - Goldfinger (1959) - Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. permalink
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (1953) - Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket. permalink
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (1953) - Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. permalink
Ian Fleming - Goldfinger (1959) - He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure—-the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. permalink
Ian Fleming - Moonraker (1955) - He thought with pleasure of the In-tray piled with Top Secret dockets he had gladly abandoned when the red telephone had summoned him an hour before. He felt fairly confident that now he wouldn't have to deal with them. permalink
Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever (1956) - I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. permalink
Ian Fleming - 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. permalink
Ian Fleming - I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. permalink
Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice (1964) - I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. permalink
Ian Fleming - on meeting Sean Connery
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