Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.” — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
