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The Very Best Roger Moore James Bond One-Liners, Ranked By Corniness

Nobody did puns better. Moore may have been the silly Bond, but that’s why we loved him.

by Ryan Britt
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Kino. ROGER MOORE, Date of Birth: 14 october, 1927, Stockwell London, UK. Celebrate his 80th Birthda...
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This year, the late Sir Roger Moore would have turned 95. In honor of him, and the dad-joke one-liner tradition of James Bond in general, here are seven of the best of Moore’s one-liners as 007, ranked by each line’s basic corniness.

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7. “I hear the price of eggs was going up, but isn’t that a little high?”

In Octopussy (1983), Magda (Kristina Wayborn) tells Bond that the stakes are either a stolen Fabergé egg or his life. Bond’s response is to scramble his egg metaphors.

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