Ian Fleming Quotes

“Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang’s going to take us right across the English Channel to France.”

“That’s no way to treat adventures. Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.”

“You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.”

″... he was generally known in the neighborhood as Commander Crackpott! You may think that’s rude, and so it is, but Commander Pott was a humorous man and he knew his own shortcomings very well, so when he heard that was his nickname in the neighborhood he was not at all cross. He just roared with laughter and said, ‘I’ll show ‘em!‘”

“Why, in exchange for you having blown up my belongings, I’m going to blow up yours and you all with it.”

“If you get to like them and understand them, if you are kind to them and don’t scratch their paint or bang their doors, if you fill them up when they need it, if you keep them clean and polished and out of the rain and snow as much as possible, you will find, you may find, that they become almost like persons- more than just ordinary persons: magical persons!”

“Exploring places and inventing things can be very exciting indeed, but it is only very seldom that, in your explorations, you discover a really rare butterfly or animal or insect or mineral or plant that people will pay money to see, and practically never that you discover real treasure...”

″...they managed to compose themselves and fix the sweets between their teeth. And then they BLEW! And do you know what? A wonderful shrill whistle came out, almost like a toy steam-engine.”

“Everything, everything, everything is being invented or improved all the time...”

“The others made whewing noises and thanked heaven for the way their magical Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang had saved them from the gangsters’ terrible revenge.”