# What are your favorite James Bond one-liners?

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**Created:** [November 25, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-james-bond-one-liners/604024 "2011-11-25T05:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-james-bond-one-liners/604024/61 "2011-12-01T18:16:46Z")

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> [@thebenn](#):
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> One of the Roger Moore movies, and I’m roughly paraphrasing:
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> Bond has just finished bedding a lovely lady when he is called away for a mission.
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> She asks him to make love to her once more before he leaves.
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> Bond smirks, leans over to kiss her, and nonchalantly quips “I suppose it’s better not to go off half-cocked”.
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> I giggle just thinking of this scene.

**Live and Let Die** , with nuclear-hot Jane Seymour.

“Before you go, do we have time for Lesson Number Three?”  
“Absolutely. There’s no sense going off half-cocked.”

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> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#):
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> That would be a Sam Vimes quote.

It would. And Sam would _never_ stoop to a Bond one-liner.

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**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-james-bond-one-liners/604024/63 "2011-12-03T15:29:03Z")

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Another favorite (I think from _Live and Let Die_):

Bond makes M a cup of espresso. (This was in the mid 1970’s, when most people in the English-speaking world had never heard of espresso.) Bond goes through the whole ritual of grinding, steaming, etc., etc., etc. M looks at the espresso machine, looks at the cup of coffee, and says “Is that all it does?”

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**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-james-bond-one-liners/604024/64 "2011-12-04T16:57:00Z")

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Not so much a one-liner, but the scene where Brosnan as Bond smashes up a city driving a tank, then stops and adjusts his tie. Quintessential JB! [See here at 4:42](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjXhSbPUHnc).

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