• 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: 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 (2011). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard