Alan Moore Quotes

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

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

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

Who watches the watchmen?

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

You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.

You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I kn...

I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to...

Also, please don’t think I’ve forgotten about your outstanding service record, or about all the invaluable contributions that you’ve made to the company. Fire, the wheel, agriculture..It’s an impressi...

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild tr...

For to be human is not enough...when gods cry war amidst the thunder.

I am tired of this world, these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surf...

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. This dichotomy is not an invention of the t...