# Eric Ambler - Quotes: 15 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler ## Books - [A Kind of Anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/a-kind-of-anger.md) — 1 quote - [Passage of Arms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/passage-of-arms.md) — 2 quotes - [The Care of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-care-of-time.md) — 2 quotes - [The Dark Frontier](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-dark-frontier.md) — 1 quote - [The Light of Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-light-of-day.md) — 3 quotes - [The Mask of Dimitrios](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-mask-of-dimitrios.md) — 6 quotes ## Recently added quotes > The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-care-of-time/the-warning-message.md) > In my experience, most people are extraordinarily careless about the way they look after traveler's checks. Just because their counter-signature is required before a check can be cashed, they assume that only they can negotiate it. Yet anyone with eyes in his head can copy the original signature. [...] People who leave traveler's checks lying around deserve to lose them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-light-of-day/in-my-experience.md) > I think that if I were asked to single out one specific group of men, one type, one category, as being the most suspicious, unbelieving, unreasonable , petty, inhuman, sadistic, double-crossing set of bastards in any language, I would say without any hesitation: "the people who run counter-espionage departments." With them, it is no use having just one story; and especially not a true story; they automatically disbelieve that. What you must have is a series of stories, so that when they knock the first one down you can bring out the second, and then when they scrub that out, come up with a third. That way they think they are making progress and keep their hands off you, while you gradually find out the story they really want you to tell. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-light-of-day/i-think-that.md) > It came down to this: if I hadn't been arrested by the Turkish police, I would have been arrested by the Greek police. I had no choice but to do what this man Harper told me. He was entirely responsible for what happened to me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-light-of-day/it-came-down.md) > It is hard for a woman not to like very much an attractive, rich and intelligent older man who adores her and yet who does not lose his good sense and dignity by insisting that she adore him in return. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/a-kind-of-anger/it-is-hard.md) > In your profession you must have met lots of very rich self-made men, as rich as or even richer than Zander. They always tend to regard themselves as a little above the law, wouldn't you say? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-care-of-time/in-your-profession.md) > I think that, to begin with, he had intended to kill Dimitrios when he found him, but as he began to get short of money his hatred of Dimitrios became more reasonable. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-mask-of-dimitrios/i-think-that.md) > Power is for the powerful. Let power fall into the hands of the weak and the rest is tyranny. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-dark-frontier/power-is-for.md) > If I had not made the money, someone else would have done so. Not one of those unfortunate creatures would have been any better off and I should have lost money. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-mask-of-dimitrios/if-i-had.md) > Greta is really a splendid cook and there is nothing Swiss about my wines. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-mask-of-dimitrios/greta-is-really.md) > Latimer turned to watch the subject of these reflections carefully, almost lovingly, adjusting the coffee percolator, and thought how difficult it was to dislike a man when he was making coffee for you. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-mask-of-dimitrios/latimer-turned-to-watch.md) > "Let us hope the bad times are ended for good," [said Mr. Tan.] > > "Good business for one is good business for all," said Girija. > > "Very true." Now, Mr. Tan decided, they were coming to the point. Reference to mutual advantage was the accepted preliminary to a squeeze. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/passage-of-arms/let-us-hope.md)