Quotes from work

V for Vendetta

“My mother said I broke her heart… but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us… but within that inch we are free.”

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain… The black sheep of the family.”

“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.”

“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

“Everybody has their story to tell.”

“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.”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

“God is in the rain.”