Ian Fleming Quotes

Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964)

Ian Fleming was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. (Ian Fleming Quotes)

“A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“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

“A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“A typical load, decided Bond, while admitting that if two of their number, himself and Tiffany Case, had their secrets, there was no reason why many of these dull people should not also be bound on strange missions.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“Above all, he liked it that everything was one’s own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders – all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania… is as priceless as genius.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won’t wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“And of course, Japan, with the highest suicide statistics in the world, a country with an unquenchable thirst for the bizarre, the cruel and the terrible, would provide the perfect last refuge for him.”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

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

“Anyway, I make up my own mind about men and women. What’s the good of other people’s opinions? Animals don’t consult each other about other animals. They look and sniff and feel. In love and hate, and everything in between, those are the only tests that matter. But people are unsure of their own instincts. They want reassurance. So they ask someone else whether they should like a particular person or not. And as the world loves bad news, they nearly always get a bad answer–or at least a qualified one.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

“At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on closer inspection to be a mighty stressed-concrete pillbox. Military”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“Before a man’s forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it’s the story that hurts most. Anyway I’m not forty yet.
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“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 Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Moonraker

“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.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“Bond didn’t defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. They lacked personality and the patina of individual craftsmanship that European cars have.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Bond ordered a double gin and tonic and one whole green lime. When the drink came he cut the lime in half, dropped the two squeezed halves into the long glass, almost filled the glass with ice cubes and then poured in the tonic.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor’s face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Bond sat down on his rumpled bed and lost himself in drink and gloomy reflections.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: ‘They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“Bond’s mind was clear again. By a miracle he had survived a devastating wound. He could feel his armpits still wet with the fear of it. But the success of his gambit with the chair had wiped out all memories of the dreadful valley of defeat through which he had just passed.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. ‘This Man Died from Living Too Much’.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim’s head or Bond’s brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“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

“Each day the atmosphere became more hateful. It seemed fantastic to Bond that human relationships could collapse into dust overnight and he searched his mind again and again for a reason.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.” (Ian Fleming Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“For an instant he felt nettled at the irony, the lightest shadow of a snub, with which she had met his decisiveness, and at the way he had risen to her quick glance. But it was only an infinitesimal clink of foils and as the bowing maitre d’hotel led them through the crowded room, it was forgotten as Bond in her wake watched the heads of the diners turn to look at her.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“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

“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“He was about six feet tall, slim and fit-looking. The eyes in the lean, slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. The narrowed, watchful eyes gave his good looks the dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“He went off down the corridor, feeling, for the first time in his life, totally inadequate.”
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

“Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn’t think that was quite proper.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

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

“History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“However that may be, it is clear that he could have found many investments more savoury than prostitution, if he had not been tempted by the by-product of unlimited women for his personal use. Fate rebuked him with terrifying swiftness.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“I am a poet in deeds-not often in words.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“I am allergic to almost every form of international agency, conference or committee.”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“I don’t drink tea. I hate it. It’s mud. Moreover it’s one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.” (Ian Fleming Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“I expect because I think I can handle life better on my own. Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“I prefer to regard myself as one who has the ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

“I think it’s the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good.”
Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only

“I was just running away from the person I’d been for the past five years. I wasn’t particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“I wouldn’t be surprised if in fifty years’ time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,’ he said philosophically.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“If the decision is unfavourable, the only alternative would be to place our information and our recommendations in the hands of the Deuxième Bureau or of our American colleagues of the Combined Intelligence Agency in Washington. Both of these organizations would doubtless be delighted to take over the scheme.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus – that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus – that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. “Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world” – but only if the desire to move the world is there.
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“If you find yourself dead in your bed tonight,’ laughed Bond, ‘you’ll know who did it.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

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

“In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparatus of the West.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

“It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

“It was one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.”
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.” (Ian Fleming Quotes)
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

“It’s to the effect that America has progressed from infancy to senility without having passed through a period of maturity.”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

“I’ve found that one must try and teach people that there’s no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you’ve got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“James, has it ever occurred to you that every man in the fleet knows what to do except the commanding admiral?”
Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only

“Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“Looking up at him from across the room, Bond had to admit that there was something larger than life in the looming, imperious figure, in the hypnotically direct stare of the eyes, in the tall white brow, in the cruel downward twist of the thin lips. The square-cut, heavily draped kimono, designed to give the illusion of bulk to a race of smallish men, made something huge out of the towering figure, and the golden dragon embroidery, so easily to be derided as a childish fantasy, crawled menacingly across the black silk and seemed to spit real fire from over the left breast. Blofeld had paused in his harangue. Waiting for him to continue, Bond took the measure of his enemy. He knew what would be coming – justification. It was always so. When they thought they had got you where they wanted you, when they knew they were decisively on top, before the knock-out, even to an audience on the threshold of extinction, it was pleasant, reassuring to the executioner, to deliver his apologia – purge the sin he was about to commit.”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“Never say ‘no’ to adventures.”
Ian Fleming
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

“Never send a man where you can send a bullet.”
Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only

“One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“Only two weeks later we were lovers. It was somehow inevitable.”
Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me

“Our prisons are full of people who think they’re Napoleon..or God.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“Out of the mouth of the huge, shadowed poster, between the great violet lips, half-open in ecstasy, the dark shape of a man emerged and hung down like a worm from the mouth of a corpse.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“People are islands,’ she said. ‘They don’t really touch. However close they are, they’re really quite separate. Even if they’ve been married for fifty years.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped – by me.”
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

“She had the gay, bold, forthcoming looks the Viennese are supposed to have and seldom do.”
Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only

“She kept on patching up the edifice of her deceit until Bond wanted to spank her and tell her to relax and tell the truth. Instead he just gave her a reassuring pat on the back outside her room and told her to hurry up and have her bathe. Then he went on to his room.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn’t prove anything’ was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defense Manual.”
Ian Fleming
Moonraker

“Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“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

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.’ He laughed. ‘But don’t let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine.” (Ian Fleming Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“That all these buildings strike me and most Berliners as quite hideous cannot alter the fact that only by these vertical means could the government of West Berlin have managed to tuck away nearly half a million inhabitants in something over ten years, and one only has to go over to the Eastern Sector and drive down the pretentious turn-of-the-century Tiflis-style Stalin Allee to accept the fact that all the ‘new world’, independent of nationality, is getting more and more hideous every day.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

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

“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman –a matter of millimetres.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“The disadvantage of the beautiful deep ting-tong, ting-tong of the Bermuda carriage bell is that it cannot possibly sound angry, however angrily you may sound it.”
Ian Fleming
Thunderball

“The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, ‘The Gilded Mousetrap School’ he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“The greatly exaggerated hullabaloo recently created, largely by newspapers wanting ‘a story’, about the resurgence of Nazism and anti-Semitism.”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“The license to kill for the Secret Service, the double-0 prefix, was a great honour. It had been earned hardly. It brought James Bond the only assignments he enjoyed—the dangerous ones.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“The seventy million cubic metres of rubble in Berlin are gradually being made into mountains, which then will be turfed and have trees planted on them. These mountains are known as Monte Klamotten—Rubbish Mountains—and the total operation is known as ‘Hitler’s Collected Works’.”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“The whole scene, the empty beach, the green and blue sea, the naked girl with the strands of fair hair, reminded Bond of something. He searched his mind. Yes, she was Botticelli’s Venus, seen from behind.”
Ian Fleming
Doctor No

“Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

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

“There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tires caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën’s exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“There were no big fish about, but many lobsters were out of their holes looking huge and prehistoric in the magnifying lens of the water. Their stalk-like eyes glared redly at him and their foot-long spined antennae asked him for the password.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“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

“They came up with the idea that I should make a round-trip of the most exciting cities of the world and describe them in beautiful, beautiful prose. This could be accomplished, they said, within a month.”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“They want us dead,’ said Bond calmly. So we have to stay alive.”
Ian Fleming
Moonraker

“Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.”
Ian Fleming
From Russia With Love

“Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I’d been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” (Ian Fleming Quotes)
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“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

“Was it true what The Big Man had said, that she would have nothing to do with men? He doubted it. She seemed open to love and to desire. At any rate he knew she was not closed to him. He wanted her to come back and sit down opposite him again so that he could look at her and play with her and slowly discover her. Solitaire. It was an attractive name. No wonder they had christened her that in the sleazy nightclubs of Port au Prince. Even in her present promise of warmth towards him there was much that was withdrawn and mysterious.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“We’re both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town.”
Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever

“What a man! He certainly seems to have the run of this country. Just shows how one can push a democracy around, what with habeas corpus and human rights and all the rest. Glad we haven’t got him on our hands in England.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.”
Ian Fleming
Goldfinger

“When I get on an aircraft all I can see outside is wing.’ The American next to her had said, ‘Listen, Ma’am, you go right on seeing that wing. Start worrying when you can’t see it any longer.”
Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities

“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference”
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

“When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it’s obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero.”
Ian Fleming
For Your Eyes Only

“Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.”
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale

“You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.”
Ian Fleming
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face”
Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die

“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother’s womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world.”
Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die