Author: Eric Ambler

Cites

• Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Judgement on Deltchev (1951) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many things in your good people cause me disgust, and, verily, not their evil. I would that they had a madness by which they succumbed, like this pale criminal!
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Journey into Fear (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Verily I have seene divers become mad and senseless for feare: yea and in him, who is most settled and best resolved, it is certaine that whilest his fit continueth, it begetteth many strange dazelings, and terrible amazements in him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• John Dryden (1)
  • IN: Cause for Alarm (1938) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
    FROM: "Absalom and Achitophel", (1681), Poem, UK
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Levanter (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Levanter 'n (Levant, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean, + - er) 1. A native or inhabitant of the Levant. 2. A ship trading to the Levant, rare. 3. A strong and raw easterly wind in the Mediterranean. Also fig. Levanter 2n (f. Levant v + - er) One who absconds, esp. one who does so after losing bets.
    FROM: Webster's Third New International and The Oxford English dictionaries, (1961), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Passage of Arms (1959) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: passage... 9. A mutual act or transaction; something that goes on between two persons mutually; a negotiation; an interchange or exchange of vows, endearments, or the like; an interchange or exchange of blows; encounter; altercation; a fencing; as in argument; as, a passage at or of arms.
    FROM: Webster's New International Dictionary, (1961), Definition, NULL
• Sir Browne, Thomas (1)
  • IN: A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only Chronicle.
    FROM: Hydriotaphia, (1658), Book, UK

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• Alex Berenson (1)
  • IN: The Shadow Patrol (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Disappointment must be dealt with. You must wander in paradise just once more before you decide not to take the stuff again. A trifle more.
    FROM: A Coffin for Dimitrios, (1939), Novel, UK