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[mi6-cafe]

Weekly Quote Challenges

This month we are encouraging you to share favourite lines from Ian Fleming’s novels. We want to see anything you love about the original material. But we also are hosting theme weeks.

From May 1st to 5th, we want to see what you think are the best villain monologues

From May 6th to 12th, we want your favourite innuendos

From May 13th to 19th, we want your favourite bits of setting that Fleming has written.

From May 20th to 26th, we want your favourite lines from allies of MI6

From May 27th to 31st, we want your favourite lines from the man himself, Bond. James Bond.

Tag your quotes with #FlemingQuotes so we can reblog them for all to enjoy!

[svengooliecat]

Favorite Bond Innuendos

Bond stopped abruptly in front of the butcher's shop. He banged the gears into reverse. There was a sickening scrunch and tinkle. Bond switched off his engine and got out. He walked round to the back of the car. The girl, her face tense with anger, had one beautiful silken leg on the road. There was an indiscreet glimpse of white thigh. The girl stripped off her goggles and stood, legs braced and arms akimbo. The beautiful mouth was taut with anger. The Aston Martin's rear bumper was locked into the wreckage of the Triumph's lamps and radiator grille. Bond said amiably, “If you touch me there again you'll have to marry me.”

--Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

[shiphitsthefan]

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

[castillon02]

Bond sat on in the silent room, shifting the pieces in the jigsaw so that two entirely different pictures alternated in his mind. In one the sun shone and all was clear and innocent as the day. The other was a dark confusion of guilty motives, obscure suspicions, and nightmare queries.

Moonraker, by Ian Fleming 

Moonraker is one of my favorite Bond books, and I really enjoyed this bit of it--Bond torn between what his professional instincts are telling him and his desire for that clear, sunshiny day.  

[mi6-cafe]

Remembering Ian Fleming

It is on this day in 1964 that Bond author Ian Fleming passed away, just before the premier of Goldfinger. Most of us are more familiar with the movies based on his books, but today let us celebrate the author. 

What are your favourite quotes from the books? Most memorable? Or most ridiculous? Let us know below or create your own post and tag it #FlemingQuotes for us to reblog. 

[wambold]

“God, it was turning down towards his groin! Bond set his teeth! Supposing it liked the warmth there! Supposing it tried to crawl into the crevices! Could he stand it? Supposing it chose that place to bite?”

From Dr No., by Ian Fleming

[wambold]

“The licence to kill for the Secret Service, the double-o prefix, was a great honour. It had been earned hardly. It brought Bond the only assignments he enjoyed, the dangerous ones.”

From Dr. No., by Ian Fleming

[spiritofcamelot]

“Oh, dear little engine,” she said plaintively. “Beautiful, clever little engine. Please be kind.” ‘Put-put. Put-put. Hiss. Put. Hiss…’ And suddenly they were free-wheeling along in silence.

Diamonds are Forever

In which the hand car said fuck you.