Eric Ambler Quotes

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

We are trespassing on your hospitality

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

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

Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine.

Reality is always so obstructive.

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

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