Fleming phrases for every mood.

Whenever I get really, truely tired, I think of the phrase from CASINO ROYALE; "the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes."

It happened again last night, and it got me thinking there should be a collection of Fleming phrases for every mood.

At least once per day (I'm not joking): " I / we have all the time in the world".

Whenever my sister hears that phrase she pokes herself on the forehead, says "pkew!" and slumps over for a moment.

I too use Flemingisms (or Mankewicz/Maibaumisms) almost every day. "The problem isn't getting enough caviar, it's getting enough toast to go with it" is a phrase that comes up for me every Christmas.

Sometimes it's simply grunting "mmm" like Lazenby or Che Che, or even just "mm" like Sean in DAF.

Most times nobody recognizes that I'm quoting anyone, which is just as well - I get to look a little more urbane because of it.

My wife and I paraphrase Bond's realization about Tilly's nature for all manner of discoveries.

The 'once happenstance, twice coincidence, third time is enemy action' from GF I used to use a lot when still mired in retail management -- describing stuff going on above and below my level.

The YOLT ending with 'meant as much as sparrow's tears" was something I used as a teen and into my early 20s but it was replaced by Roy Batty's speech at the end of BLADE RUNNER, the "tears in rain" bit.

From the movies:

"There's something I'd like to get off your chest" gets a lot of use at home with the wife.

Whenever anything breaks or stops working, I say "salt corrosion."

Some years ago, when a gal I was onto started a relationship, I feel exactly like James at the end of "Moonraker"

"And now what? wondered Bond. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure—the pain of
failure that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. The exit line. He must get out of these
two young lives and take his cold heart elsewhere. There must be no regrets. No false sentiment. He
must play the role which she expected of him. The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The
man who was only a silhouette."

You know, MOONRAKER was one of the Fleming novels I've least enjoyed, still, loved that paragraph. So deep!