Vendetta Quotes

• Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

  Alan Moore

  Gun, Plot, Reason Why

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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• The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

  Alan Moore

  Heartbroken, Hurt, Past

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• You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

  Alan Moore

  Honesty, Long, Wearing A Mask

  "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Doe, Loser, Winner

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Two, Evil, People

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Sugar, Too Much

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Hamlet”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

  Alan Moore

  May, Used, Conversation

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• I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Peace, Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

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• This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

  Alan Moore

  Anarchy, Chaos

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

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• The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

  Alan Moore

  Hurt, Real, Past

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• I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Challenges, Bathroom

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• Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

  William Shakespeare

  Aids, Form, Disguise

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

  Alan Moore

  Games, Boards

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• I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

  Anita Hill

  May, Information, Relevant

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

  Alan Moore

  Stupid, Nasty, Chaos

  "Fictional character: Finch". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

  Alan Moore

  Multiplying, Swarms, Villainy

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• The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Moments, Left

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• Remember, remember the 5th of November.

  Guy Fawkes

  Gunpowder, November, Remember

  "V for Vendetta". Comisc book by Alan Moore, 1982-986.

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• Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Believe, Artist

  "V for Vendetta". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

  Alan Moore

  Giving, World, Lasts

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• Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

  Alan Moore

  Prison, Insidious

  "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

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• It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

  Alan Moore

  Years, Rose, Three

  "Fictional character: Valerie". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

  Alan Moore

  Men, Asking, Paradox

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