Skip to content

Consolation Quote by Eric Ambler

“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there…” quote by Eric Ambler — Download Open 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.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Consolation Inefficiency Law Remains Should Skeptic Superhuman

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…

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…

Image

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

Image

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

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.

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…

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…

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…

Image

Reality is always so obstructive.

Image

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

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…

Image

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

Image

Explore all 16 Eric Ambler quotes

More Consolation quotes

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

Bruce Springsteen

Image

I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now…

Janice Galloway

Image

It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we…

Caryll Houselander

Image

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…

Image

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

Image

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

Image

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Image

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Image

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Clementine Paddleford

Image

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

Image

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Image

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

Cardinal Richelieu

Image

Browse all 505 Consolation quotes