Sean Connery as James Bond in Thunderball (1965)
James Bond: My dear girl, don’t flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for Queen and country. You don’t think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, the one where he has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue…
[she steps on Bond’s foot]
Fiona: … but not this one!
James Bond: His wife probably lost her dog.
Domino: How do you know that? How do you know my friends call me Domino?
James Bond: It’s on the bracelet on your ankle.
Domino: So… what sharp little eyes you’ve got.
James Bond: Wait ’til you get to my teeth.
James Bond: I think he got the point.
James Bond: Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She’s just dead.
James Bond: You can tell of the one that got away.
[Shooting from the hip, Bond shatters his clay pigeon]
Bond: Why no, it isn’t, is it!
James Bond: Can’t miss. She has two moles on her left thigh.
James Bond: A poker, in the hands of a widow.
Pat Fearing: Really? I’d have thought you were just the type for a widow.
James Bond: Not this one. He didn’t like me at all.
[after a narrow escape from a motorized traction table set on overload]
James Bond: I must be six inches taller.
James Bond: Sir, I’d respectfully request that you change my assignment to Nassau.
M: Is there any other reason, besides your enthusiasm for water sports?
M: Do we know where she is now?
James Bond: Nassau.
M: Do you think she’s worth going after?
James Bond: Well, I wouldn’t put it quite like that, sir…
Pat Fearing: James, where are you going?
James Bond: Oh, nowhere. I just thought I’d take a little, uh… exercise.
Pat Fearing: You must be joking.
Emilio Largo: You know much about guns, Mr. Bond?
James Bond: No, but I know a little about women.
[Bond and Largo spot Domino eavesdropping
James Bond: Everything you give me…
Q: …is treated with equal contempt. Yes, I know.
[James slugs Felix to shut him up, then slugs the bad guy hiding in the shower]
Felix Leiter: Fine way to treat the CIA!
James Bond: I’m sorry about that, Felix, but you were about to say double-O seven. Here.
[James gives Felix the bad guy’s gun]
Felix Leiter: Well, James, did you kill him?
James Bond: You know me better than that.
James Bond: The Disco Volante. If the bombs aren’t aboard, they soon will be.
Felix Leiter: Who you going to ask, Largo?
James Bond: No, we won’t have to.
James Bond: You may hex me yet. Let’s see your decks for the cards.
Fiona: Aren’t you in the wrong room, Mr. Bond?
Bond: Not from where I’m standing.
Madame LaPorte: The coffin – it has your initials: J.B.
Bond: At the moment, rather him than me.
Madame LaPorte: At least you’ve been saved the effort of removing him. Colonel Bouvar passed away in his sleep, so they tell me.
Bond: Mm…
Madame LaPorte: You sound disappointed you did not kill him yourself.
Bond: I am. Jacques Bouvar murdered two of my colleagues.
Bond: [helping Domino into a life raft] Up.
[Largo dies]
Domino: I’m glad I killed him.
James Bond: You’re glad?
Bond: See you later, irrigator.
Bond: Now don’t you worry, I’ll tell the chef!
Count Lippe: Let me out of this bloody machine!
Felix Leiter: On you, anything looks good.
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Post by Chad Elkins. Source: IMDB