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

- Eric Ambler

Reality is always so obstructive.

- Eric Ambler

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

- 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

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

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 t…

- 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.

- 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 P…

- 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 absurdi…

- Eric Ambler