William Shakespeare on V for Vendetta (film)
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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.”
“And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
“We are oft to blame in this. 'Tis too much proved that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.'”
“The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [skipping four of the original lines] Disdaining fortune with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution...”