Eric Ambler

“If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but…

— Eric Ambler

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost…

— Eric Ambler

“but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.”

— Eric Ambler

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside…

— Eric Ambler

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for…

— Eric Ambler

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions…

— Eric Ambler

“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the…

— Eric Ambler

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with…

— Eric Ambler

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew…

— Eric Ambler

Reality is always so obstructive.

— Eric Ambler

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

— Eric Ambler

“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But…

— Eric Ambler

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

— 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.…

— 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…

— Eric Ambler

“In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside…

— Eric Ambler