Top 70 Sean Connery Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.”

— Sean Connery

2. “You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”

— Sean Connery

3. “Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.”

— Sean Connery

4. “Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.”

— Sean Connery

5. “Some age. Others mature.”

— Sean Connery

6. “Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.”

— Sean Connery

7. “There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”

— Sean Connery

8. “There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.”

— Sean Connery

9. “The key to a woman’s heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.”

— Sean Connery

10. “Don’t wait for it to happen, don’t even want it to happen – just watch what does happen.”

— Sean Connery

11. “If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?”

— Sean Connery

12. “If you have to resort to violence, you’ve already lost.”

— Sean Connery

13. “My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.”

— Sean Connery

14. “A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”

— Sean Connery

15. “It’s not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.”

— Sean Connery

16. “I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.”

— Sean Connery

17. “If you can’t do it with one bullet, don’t do it at all.”

— Sean Connery

18. “How peaceful life would be without love. How safe, how tranquil and how dull.”

— Sean Connery

19. “Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”

— Sean Connery

20. “But I wouldn’t call myself sadistic.”

— Sean Connery

21. “I take the good with the bad. I can’t love people in slices.”

— Sean Connery

22. “I haven’t found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.”

— Sean Connery

23. “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don’t recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.”

— Sean Connery

24. “I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don’t ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.”

— Sean Connery

25. “I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.”

— Sean Connery

26. “Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.”

— Sean Connery

27. “I’ve always been hopeful about Scotland’s prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.”

— Sean Connery

28. “I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.”

— Sean Connery

29. “I don’t know anything about baseball.”

— Sean Connery

30. “I admit I’m being paid well, but it’s no more than I deserve. After all, I’ve been screwed more times than a hooker.”

— Sean Connery

31. “There’s a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.”

— Sean Connery

32. “I don’t understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.”

— Sean Connery

33. “Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we’re just another robber tribe.”

— Sean Connery

34. “Bond’s introduction: “Bond. James Bond.” Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film.”

— Sean Connery

35. “To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.”

— Sean Connery

36. “I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.”

— Sean Connery

37. “I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.”

— Sean Connery

38. “The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same – certifiable.”

— Sean Connery

39. “My dear girl, there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!”

— Sean Connery

40. “There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”

— Sean Connery

41. “Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.”

— Sean Connery

42. “Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.”

— Sean Connery

43. “I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.”

— Sean Connery

44. “The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”

— Sean Connery

45. “I’ve never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.”

— Sean Connery

46. “I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.”

— Sean Connery

47. “There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!”

— Sean Connery

48. “If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.”

— Sean Connery

49. “There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there’s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.”

— Sean Connery

50. “More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”

— Sean Connery