Neil Gaiman Quotes

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

Lies are dangerous but sometimes necessary when a country is in danger.

There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

What would you do if you had to choose?

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.