My Little Corner Of Doctor Who Quotes

• "I can not let you go, schoolmaster, whether you believe what you've been told is of no importance. You and your companion would be footprints in a time where you were not supposed to walk." The Doctor
• "I know that free movement in time and space is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junk yard." Ian
• "Fear makes companions of us all, Miss Wright." The Doctor
• "You wanted advice, you said. I never give it, never. But I might just say this for you, always search for the truth. My truth is in the stars and yours...is here." The Doctor
• "Well, unlike the old adage, my boy, our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it..." The Doctor
• "One day, I shall come back, yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, and no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, my dear. Good bye, Susan." The Doctor
• "What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow?" The Doctor
• "I am a citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot." The Doctor
• "...and now, they're all gone. All gone. None of them could understand. Not even my little Susan, or Vicki. And as for Barbara and Chatterton - Chesterton - they were all too impatient to get back to their own time. And now, Steven, perhaps I should go home. Back to my own planet. But I can't...I can't..." The Doctor
• "That the nature of man, even in this day and age, hasn't altered at all. You still fear the unknown, like everyone else before you." Steven
• "All these people are giving me guns - I do wish they wouldn't." The Doctor
• "They gave me a gun. He extracted my tooth...what more do you want?" The Doctor
• "You may know where you are, but not when! I can foresee oodles of trouble!" The Doctor
• "Superstition is a strange thing, my dear, sometimes it tells the truth." The Doctor
• "What did you say, my boy? It's all over? That's what you said...but it isn't at all. It's far from being over..." The Doctor
• The Doctor: "Never cared much for the word 'impregnable'. Sounds a bit too much like 'unsinkable'."
  Harry: "What's wrong with 'unsinkable'?"
  The Doctor: "Nothing. As the iceberg said to the Titanic."
• "You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets." The Brigadier
• "What's the point of being grown up if you can't act childish sometimes?" The Doctor
• "Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague, they've survived cosmic wars and holocausts and now, here they are, out among the stars ready to begin a new life, ready to outsit eternity. They're indomintable." The Doctor
• Vira: "You claim to be Med-Techs?"
  The Doctor: "Well, my doctorate is purely honorary, and Harry here is only qualified to work on sailors."
• "It may be irrational of me, but humans are quite my favorite species." The Doctor
• "It's absolutely typical of Harry. How anyone in his right mind can fall down a whacking great subsidence like that..." The Doctor
• "Cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I missed!" The Doctor
• "You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle." The Doctor
• "You and I are scientists, professor. We buy our privilege to experiment at the cost of total responsibility." The Doctor
• "I'm a Time Lord...You don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity." The Doctor
• "Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never tell the time again." The Doctor
• "You mean you still practice teleportation? How quaint. Now if you got yourself a decent fork-lift truck..." The Doctor
• "You thought I was dead, didn't you? You're always making that mistake." The Doctor
• The Doctor: "Humans have got such limited little minds. I don't know why I like you so much."
  Sarah-Jane: "Because you have such good taste."
  The Doctor: "That's true. That's very true."
• "The worse the situation, the worse your jokes get." Sarah Jane
• Sarah Jane: "Don't forget me."
  The Doctor: "Oh Sarah...don't you forget me."
• Peri: You don't know where we are.
  Doctor: Of course I do. I know exactly where we are.
  Peri: Oh yeah?
  Doctor: Yeah (mimicking Peri's Yankee twang). We're in the TARDIS.
  Peri: That's not what I meant.
  Doctor: That's what you said. "Where we are,” you said. I did think it was a rather redundant question. Even for you."
• "Why can't we go somewhere pleasant? Where there's no fighting, just peace and happiness." Victoria to Jamie
• "Just you watch your lip or I'll put you across my knee and larrap you." Jamie
• "Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority." The Doctor
• "An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie. Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?" The Doctor
• "Hey! This doesn't look like the inside of a princesses castle to me." Jamie
• "I haven't seen any Yahoos, you haven't seen any robots - it's a fine pickle we're in." Jamie to Gulliver
• "Och, what's the use of thinking? What we need is a battering ram." Alternative Jamie
• "I wish...I wish I believed in wishing wells." The Doctor
• "Sausages! Man will become like a string of sausages - all the same." The Doctor
• "Don't underestimate them, Jimmy. They may look like amateurs but that man has an incredible knack of being one jump ahead of everyone else. If there's a safe way into that place, he'll be the one to find it." The Brigadier
• "I will not be beaten by a brainless tin box!" Zoe
• "Ooh bad eggs. Let's try somewhere else." Jamie
• "The Doctor's almost as clever as I am." Zoe
• "Zoe is something of a genius...it can be rather irritating at times." The Doctor
• "It was programmed to kill once - me. It must think it's succeeded, stupid machine!" The Doctor
• "You can't kill me...I'm a genius!" The Doctor
• "For such a little woman, your mouth is too big." Arturo Villar
• "Now Zoe, you and I know that time is relative, isn't it?" The Doctor
• "...he's nicked a Dalek!" Ben
• "You know, it's little things like this that make it difficult to believe that you're the Doctor. The other one, I mean, the proper one...oh nuts, you know what I mean! You, my old china, are an out and out phony!" Ben to the Doctor
• "I never talk nonsense! Well, hardly ever." The Doctor
• "When I say run, run like a rabbit!" The Doctor
• "Look at him - he ain't normal, is he?" Ben
• "There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought." The Doctor
• "Bad laws were made to be broken." The Doctor
• "It's a flying beastie!" Jamie
• "He was electrocuted with a ray gun." Jamie
• "I am not a study of human nature. I am a professor of a much wider academy of which human nature is merely a part." The Doctor
• "Anyone would think that it's a little game, and it's not. People have died. The Daleks are all over, fit to murder the lot of us, and all you can say is that you've had a good nights work. Well, I'm telling you this, we're finished. You're just too callous for me. Anything goes by the board, anything at all. You don't give that much for a living soul except yourself. Just whose side are you on?" Jamie
• Klieg: "How did you know in the first place?"
  Doctor: "Oh, I used my own, special technique."
  Klieg: (smugly) "Oh really, Doctor...and may we know what that is?"
  Doctor: "Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut!"
• "Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing." The Doctor
• "Victoria, I think this is one of those instances where discretion is the better part of valor. Jamie has an idea." The Doctor
• Jamie: "Have you thought of a clever plan, Doctor?"
  Doctor: "Yes, Jamie, I believe I have."
  Jamie: "What are you going to do?"
  Doctor: "Bung a rock at it."
• "People spend all their time making nice things, and then other people come along and break them." The Doctor,
• Doctor: "Shall we go out and have a look?"
  Victoria: "Now, is it safe?"
  Doctor: "Oh, I shouldn't think so for a moment."
• Doctor: "I met him once, you know."
  Sarah: "Who?"
  Doctor: "Shakespeare! Charming fellow. Terrible actor."
  Sarah: "Perhaps that's why he took up writing."
• "Here on Zeta Minor is the boundary between existence as you know it and the other universe, which you don't understand. From the beginning of time it has existed side by side with the known universe. Each is the antithesis of the other. You call it 'nothing', a word to cover ignorance. And centuries ago scientists invented another word for it. 'Antimatter,' they called it. And you, by coming here, have crossed the boundary into that other universe to plunder it. Dangerous..." The Doctor
• Sarah: "Do you ever get tired of being pushed around?"
  Doctor: "Frequently."
• "You and I are scientists, Professor. We buy our privilege to experiment at the cost of total respons
• "The Earth isn't my home, Sarah. I'm a Time Lord...you don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity." The Doctor
• "Something's interfering with time Mr. Scarman, and time is my business.” The Doctor
• Laurence Scarman: "How could you possibly know that?"
  Doctor: "Well, you see Mr. Scarman I have the advantage of being slightly ahead of you. Sometimes behind you, but normally ahead of you."
  Laurence: "I see."
  Doctor: "I'm sure you don't, but it's nice of you to try."
• "I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous but it works." The Doctor
• "Seek and Kill." Marcus Scarman
  Doctor: "You going to help or you just going to stand there and admire the scenery?"
  Sarah: "Your shoes need repairing."
• "Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again." The Doctor
• Sarah: "Oh sometimes you don't seem..."
  Doctor: "Human?" (going back to the unwrapped robot) "Typical Osiron simplicity."
  Sarah: "A man has just been murdered!"
  Doctor: "Four men, Sarah. Five if you include Professor Scarman himself. And they may be the first of millions if Sutekh isn't stopped. 'Know thy enemy.' Admirable advice."
• Doctor: (as Sarah finishes wrapping him like a mummy) "How do I look?"
  Sarah: "It must have been a nasty accident."
  Doctor: "Don't provoke me."
• "Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good." to The Doctor, "Pyramids of Mars"
• "I've seen something like this before. My memory's getting terrible. You know, 300 years ago I would have recognized this like a shot." The Doctor
• (shouting) "Anyone about? Anyone?" (to Sarah) "No one about. Let's try the pub!" The Doctor
• Doctor: "You stay here and keep and eye on things."
  Sarah: "Eh?!"
  Doctor: "You'll be all right."
  Sarah: I've heard that before!"
• "Is that finger loaded?" The Doctor
• Sarah: "Harry's not a soldier."
  Doctor: "That'll improve our chances."
• Sarah: "Doctor, wake up!"
  Doctor: "I am awake, I think. Shhh! Once upon a time there were three sisters, and they lived in the bottom of a treacle well. Their names were Olga, Marsha and Irena...Are you listening Tillie?"
  Sarah: "I'm Sarah!"
  Doctor: "I feel disorientated."
  Sarah: "This is the disorientation center."
  Doctor: "That makes sense."
• "You mean you still practice teleportation? How quaint. Now if you've got yourself a decent forklift, truck..." The Doctor
• "If you're going to sit there wallowing in self-pity I'll bite your nose." The Doctor
• "Death is the price we pay for progress." The Doctor
• "You'll get a new head for Morbius. The crowning irony...I'm sorry, the pun was irresistible." Solon
• "Hello Sarah, nice to be seen again. You thought I was dead, didn't you? You're always making that mistake." The Doctor
• "I suppose you could call it a galactic weed except it's deadlier than any weed you know. Well, on most planets the animals eat the vegetation. On planets where the Krynoid gets established, the vegetation eats the animals." The Doctor to Sarah
• "Greed. The most dangerous impulse in the universe. Do you realize that on this planet the pod in unique? I use the word with precision - unique. And to some people it's uniqueness makes it valuable at any cost." The Doctor t
• "Hired thieves and murderers don't usually work for love." The Doctor
• "Action! Action! That's what we need. If we don't find the pod before it germinates it'll be the end of everything! Everything, you understand?! Even your pension!" The Doctor
• "Have you met Miss Smith? She's my best friend." The Doctor
• Harrison Chase: "What do you do for an encore, Doctor?"
  Doctor: "I win!" - "Seeds of Doom"
  Amelia Ducat: "Bravo! That's the stuff to give 'um! After all, our taxes pay for these retched civil servants and you can never get hold of them when you want them, can you?"
  Sir Colin: "In reply to:am a civil servant, Miss Ducat."
  Amelia: "Then you know exactly what I mean, of course."
• "Consider me available for future assignments, Sir Colin. Au Revior!" Amelia Ducat, D
• octor: "You humans have such limited little minds. I don't know why I like you so much."
  Sarah: "Because you have such good taste."
  Doctor: "That's true. That's very true."
• High Priest: "Exactly as it was foretold! A maiden, fair of face and sturdy of body..."
  Sarah: "You can forget the flattery, what do you lot want?"
• "You're already tall enough Doctor. You will answer my questions civilly and promptly or your body will be lengthened on the rack." Count Federico
• Count Federico: "Can you tell the future?"
  Doctor: "Sometimes."
  Count Federico: "Can you tell mine?"
  Doctor: "No."
  Count Federico: "Why not?"
  Doctor: "Because you don't have a future unless you don't listen to me."
• Doctor: "Giuliano, you're not afraid are you?"
  Giuliano: "Afraid? Oh no."
  Doctor: "That's funny. Most people would be. Come on."
• "You know the worse the situation the worse your jokes get." Sarah
• "Masque of
• Sarah: "Things are bad, aren't they?"
  Doctor: "Yes."
  Sarah: "Very bad?"
  Doctor: "Desperately bad but we can only do our best. Now, are you coming?"
• "It's part of a Time Lords job to insist on justice for all species." The Doctor
• Sarah: "Eldrad must live."
  Doctor: "What?!"
  Sarah: (smiling) "Just testing." - "Hand of Fear"
  Sarah: "I worry about you. Look, anyway, who found that thing?"
  Doctor: "You did."
  Sarah: "Right, so I'm involved. It could have been me not Driscoll. And besides, I'm from Earth and you're not."
  Doctor: "That's true. Yes, but..."
  Sarah: "But what?"
  Doctor: "I worry about you."
  Sarah: "So, I'll be careful."
  Doctor: "We'll both be careful."
• "Hang on! The least you could do is wait for me. I nearly frightened myself to death back there." Sarah
• "So now you are king, as was your wish. I salute you from the dead. Hail Eldrad. King...of nothing." King Rokon
• Sarah: "I must be mad. I'm sick of being cold and wet and hypnotized left, right and center. I'm sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if I'm coming or going...or been."
  Doctor: "Zeus plug."
  Sarah: "I want a bath. I want my hair washed. I just want to feel human again."
  Doctor: "Forget the zeus plug, I'll have the sonic screwdriver."
  Sarah: "And, boy, am I sick of that sonic screwdriver. I'm going to pack my goodies and I'm going home."
• "He used to drive me mad, but I miss having him about." The Brigadier
• Brigadier: "You may not have noticed, but I'm a bit old fashioned myself."
  Sarah: "Nonsense Brigadier! You're a swinger”
• "You may be a doctor, but I'm THE Doctor. The definite article, you might say." The Doctor
• The Doctor: "Never cared much for the word 'impregnable'. Sounds a bit too much like 'unsinkable'."
  Harry: "What's wrong with 'unsinkable'?"
  The Doctor: "Nothing. As the iceberg said to the Titanic” - "Robot"
  Miss Winters: "I suppose it all seems very elementary to a scientist of your standing, Doctor."
  The Doctor: "Well, yes it does but never mind. You have to start somewhere."
• The Brigadier: "Well, naturally enough the only country to be trusted with such a role was Great Britain.”
  The Doctor (sarcastically): "Well, naturally. I mean, the rest were all foreigners."
• "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes” The Doctor
• "You're a clumsy, ham-fisted idiot!" The Doctor
• "I've always hated sliding glass doors ever since I caught my nose in one..." Harry
• Sarah (breathlessly): "Harry...call me 'old girl' again and I'll spit in your eye."
  The Doctor: "Welcome back, Sarah-Jane."
• "Mind you if I had a cricket ball I could jolly well knock that switch." Harry
• The Doctor: "You're improving Harry!"
  Harry: "Am I really?"
  The Doctor: "Yes, your mind is beginning to work. It's entirely due to my influence, of course. You mustn't take any credit."
• "Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts and now, here they are, out among the stars ready to begin a new life, ready to out sit eternity. They're indomitable...indomintable." The Doctor
• "My doctorate is purely honorary and Harry here is only qualified to work on sailors." The Doctor
• Vira: "Your comrade is a romantic."
  The Doctor: "Perhaps we both are."
• "I'm no regressive! I've a Naval Officer!" Harry
• "Shot me did he? Cut off in mid-sentence. I might have been saying something important." The Doctor
• "It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." The Doctor
• "You can't always judge by external appearances." The Doctor
• "Why must we always destroy beauty? Why kill another creature because it is not in our image?" Sevrin
• "Why is it always me that puts a foot in it?" Harry
• "No price is too great to pay for peace." Davros
• Harry (whispering): "You're not scared are you?"
  Sarah (nervously): "Of course not."
  Harry: "I am."
• Sarah: "Listen, I've been down tunnels before and I've just had a rather nasty thought."
  The Doctor: "Really?"
  Sarah: "Yes. Suppose something is waiting for us."
  The Doctor: "That is nasty. Better not tell Harry. He's gone first."
• "Achievement comes through absolute power. And power comes through strength." Davros
• "You see, I know that although the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years I know also that out of their evil must come something good.” The Doctor
• "My colleague is a doctor of medicine and I'm a doctor of many things." The Doctor
• Sarah: "The Doctor will be worrying about us."
  Harry: "I'M worrying about us."
• The Doctor: "I think my idea is better."
  Lester: "What is your idea?"
  The Doctor: "I don't know yet. That's the trouble with ideas. They only come a bit at a time."
• The Doctor: "Harry, were you trying to undo this?"
  Harry: "Well, naturally."
  The Doctor: "Did you make the rocks fall, Harry?"
  Harry: "I s'pose I must have done, yes."
  The Doctor: "HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!"
• Sarah: "What is that thing you're fiddling with?"
  The Doctor: "It's part of the radio probe system used for checking localized jamming."
  Sarah: "What if that gets jammed too?"
• "You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on to the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle." The Doctor
• The Doctor: "When does this great operation begin? This conquest of the world."
  Broton: "Phase One is already complete."
  The Doctor: "And what are you going to do with it when you've got it? Isn't it a bit large for just about six of you?"
• "Well a 50-foot monster can't swim up the Thames and attack a large building without some people noticing..." The Brigadier
• Listen to that! It's the sound of the planet screaming out its rage!" The Doctor
• "I have so few worthy opponents. When they're gone I always miss them." The Master
• "Do you think that for once in your life you could arrive before the nick of time?" The Doctor to the Brigadier
• "We believe what our minds tell us, Jo." The Doctor
• "Overweight, under powered museum-piece...Might as well try to fly a secondhand gas stove." The Master
• "It's always innocent bystanders who suffer." The Master
• "All colonists are eccentric. That's why they're colonists." Captain Dent
• "Jenkins... Chap with wings there. Five rounds rapid." The Brigadier
• Mike Yates: "Fancy a dance, sir?"
  Brigadier: "Kind of you Captain...I think I'd rather have a pint!"
• "Grey cities linked by grey highways across a grey desert. Slag, ash and clunker - the fruits of technology." The Doctor
• "One moment you're talking about the entire universe blowing up and the next you're going on about tea!" The Brigadier
• "Would you kindly stop referring to me as 'the creature,' sir. Or I may well become increasingly hostile!" The Doctor
• "In a reminiscent mood are you, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my sympathies." The Master
• "Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway." The Doctor
• "A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." The Doctor
• "Good grief, it's a triceratops! Look Brigadier, try and keep it occupied while I'm finishing this off, will you?" The Docto
• "There's nothing 'only' about being a girl." Sarah Jane
• "We are all apt to submit ourselves to domination.. Not all spiders sit on the back." K’anpo
• "The Old Man must die, and the New Man will discover to his inexpressible joy that he has never existed." Cho-je
• "A tear Sarah Jane? Don't cry. Where there's life there's... Hope..." The Doctor
  

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