“ International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them … in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it make… 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 the survival of the fittest and the gospel of… Eric Ambler
“ In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. 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. Eric Ambler
“ In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. Yet… 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 awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance'… 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 manner. 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 proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies… Eric Ambler
“ He says that it was people who were safe and well fed who invented good and evil so that they would not have to worry about the people who were hungry and unsafe. What a man does depends on what he ne… 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 in their turn. Eric Ambler
“ Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. 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 too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it only apologizes for him… Eric Ambler
“ The pages of European history are, so to speak, bespattered with the records of Black Mondays and Black Thursdays. It may be that, in this twentieth century, almost daily acquaintance with large-scale… Eric Ambler
“ I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he hi… Eric Ambler
“ At this point doubts started to creep in. One was always reading ofyoung men running away to sea, or people shipping as deck-hands andworking their passages. There seemed to be no special qualificatio… Eric Ambler
“ All over Europe, all over the world, men were spying. While ingovernment offices other men were tabulating the results of the spies'labours; thicknesses of armour-plating, elevation angles of guns,muz… Eric Ambler
