The Dark Frontier Quotes

“but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.”
― Eric Ambler, The Dark Frontier

“bankers love to lend money they haven’t got to their creditors so that the creditors can pay back what they don’t really owe,”
― Eric Ambler, The Dark Frontier

“Tweeds, he soon found, are not in warm weather the ideal clothes for mountain climbing, for that was what his progress soon became. The track grew almost precipitous and he was still further hindered by the loose surface and his package of food and wine. He had been climbing for half an hour when he stopped, ate his lunch, drank his wine and smoked a pipe. Some forty minutes later, much refreshed and free of encumbrance, he continued the ascent in better style.”
― Eric Ambler, The Dark Frontier