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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/good-did-not-triumph-evil-did-not-triumph-the-two-resolved-destroyed/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

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## More by Eric Ambler

> [“If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/if-such-things-were-not-so-dangerous-one-would-laugh-but-one/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/yet-when-these-facts-are-seen-side-by-side-with-other-facts-in-the/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [“but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/but-when-you-have-been-nourishing-your-soul-on-expectation-reality-is/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/in-a-dying-civilization-political-prestige-is-the-reward-not-of-the/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/the-important-thing-to-know-about-an-assassination-or-an-attempted/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/a-person-who-searched-rooms-brandished-pistols-dangled-promises-of/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/it-was-the-power-of-business-not-the-deliberations-of-statesman-that/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/for-the-skeptic-there-remains-only-one-consolation-if-there-should-be/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/good-did-not-triumph-evil-did-not-triumph-the-two-resolved-destroyed/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [Reality is always so obstructive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/reality-is-always-so-obstructive/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/never-tell-a-lie-when-you-can-bullshit-your-way-through-it/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/i-am-tempted-to-find-reason-and-justice-in-the-fact-that-he-died-as/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/international-business-may-conduct-its-operations-with-scraps-of/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [“They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/they-don-t-talk-the-same-language-as-us-i-don-t-mean-that-they-don-t/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

> [“Your international financier... has no political convictions. For him there is no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest. He believes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ambler/your-international-financier-has-no-political-convictions-for-him/)

[Eric Ambler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ambler/)

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