# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

> “I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Neverwhere](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/neverwhere.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Neverwhere_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/neverwhere/i-have-always

## More from this book

> “You’ve a good heart,” she told him. “Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.” Then she shook her head. “But mostly, it’s not.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/neverwhere/youve-a-good.md)

> Unimpressed was his default state.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/neverwhere/unimpressed-was-his.md)

> He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/neverwhere/he-had-gone.md)