Men Quotes by Neil Gaiman

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

— Neil Gaiman

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

— Neil Gaiman

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

— Neil Gaiman

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

— Neil Gaiman

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

— Neil Gaiman

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

— Neil Gaiman

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

— Neil Gaiman

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

— Neil Gaiman

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep…

— Neil Gaiman

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds,…

— Neil Gaiman

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

— Neil Gaiman

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty…

— Neil Gaiman

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

— Neil Gaiman

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

— Neil Gaiman

I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man…

— Neil Gaiman

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got…

— Neil Gaiman

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,…

— Neil Gaiman

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd…

— Neil Gaiman

Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about…

— Neil Gaiman

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall…

— Neil Gaiman

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my…

— Neil Gaiman

Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by…

— Neil Gaiman

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never…

— Neil Gaiman

Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my…

— Neil Gaiman

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and…

— Neil Gaiman

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is…

— Neil Gaiman

There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

— Neil Gaiman

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

— Neil Gaiman

To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place…

— Neil Gaiman

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.…

— Neil Gaiman

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women…

— Neil Gaiman

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers.…

— Neil Gaiman

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

— Neil Gaiman

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an…

— Neil Gaiman

Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star…

— Neil Gaiman

He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and…

— Neil Gaiman

He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away,…

— Neil Gaiman

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in…

— Neil Gaiman

Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs…

— Neil Gaiman