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.
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.