Moonraker Quotes

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

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

“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

“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

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

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Before he slept he reflected, as he had often reflected in other moments of triumph at the card table, that the gain to the winner is, in some odd way, always less than the loss to the loser.”
― 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

“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

“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

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

“I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“These politicians can’t see that the atomic age has created the most deadly saboteur in the history of the world – the little man with the heavy suitcase.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“There had been something very disquieting about the dinner-table downstairs. It had been laid for only three people.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“On these things he spent all his money and it was his ambition to have as little as possible in his banking account when he was killed, as, when he was depressed, he knew he would be, before the statutory age of forty-five.”
― 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

“I decided on moustaches.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Benzedrine,’ he said. ‘I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. It’s what I shall need if I’m going to keep my wits about me tonight. It’s apt to make one a bit overconfident, but that’ll be a help too.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“He looked up. She was standing a few feet away from him. He noticed that she was wearing a black beret at a rakish angle and that she looked exciting and mysterious like someone you see driving by abroad, alone in an open car, someone unattainable and more desirable than anyone you have ever known. Someone who is on her way to make love to somebody else. Someone who is not for you.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

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

“Benzedrine,’ he said. ‘I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“The man who was only a silhouette. She”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“A mile ahead the great eyes of the Mercedes hooded themselves as they went over the crest of Wrotham Hill and disappeared down into the moonlit panorama of the Weald of Kent.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Four bad rubbers would be double his income for a year. If something went wrong he'd look pretty stupid. Have to borrow from M. And M wasn't a particularly rich man. Suddenly he saw that this ridiculous game might end in a very nasty mess.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Drax's first reaction was to lurch forward and tear Meyer's cards out of his hand. He faced them on the table, scrabbling feverishly among them for a possible winner.
Then he flung them back across the baize.
His face was dead white, but his eyes blazed redly at Bond. Suddenly he raised one clenched fist and crashed it on the table among the pile of impotent aces and kings and queens in front of him.
Very low, he spat the words at Bond. "You're a che-"
"That's enough, Drax!" Basildon's voice came across the table like a whiplash. "None of that talk here. I've been watching the whole game. Settle up. If you've got any complaints, put them in writing to the Committee.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“He touched her for the last time and then they turned away from each other and walked off into their different lives.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker