Quotes from book

Goldfinger

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Variant: Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
Source: Auric Goldfinger, Ch. 14 : Things That Go Thump In The Night

“… Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.”

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger

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

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger

“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 book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger

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

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger

“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman — a matter of millimetres.”

Ian Fleming book Goldfinger

Source: Goldfinger (1959), Ch. 8 : All To Play For