The Hartnell Era

"There is no indignity in being afraid to die, but there is a terrible shame in

being afraid to live." ~Alydon
"I've got a friend who specializes in trouble. He dives in and usually finds a w
ay." ~Ian Chesterton about the Doctor
"One thing about this place, Doctor - it certainly stimulates the phagocytes." ~
Ian Chesterton
"Doctor, why do you always show the greatest interest in the least important thi
ngs?" ~Ian Chesterton
"Doctor, I'd just come face to face with myself. I wasn't counting the buttons o
n my jacket." ~Ian Chesterton
"You know, Susan, I think your old grandfather is going just a tiny little bit a
round the bend." ~The Doctor
"I don't make threats, but I do keep promises. And I promise you, I shall cause
you more trouble than you bargain for if you don't return my property." ~The Doc
tor
"You must travel with understanding as well as hope." ~The Doctor
"I made some cocoa and got engaged." ~The Doctor
"You wanted advice, you said. I never give it - never. But I might just say this
: always search for truth." ~The Doctor
"Our lives are important, at least to us. As we see, so we learn." ~The Doctor
"Isn't it a better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive?" ~Susan Foreman
"There's something new in you, yet something older than the sky itself. I sense
that I can trust you." ~Princess Joanna to The Doctor
"Whatever he's doing he's doing because he thinks it's the best way." ~Steven Ta
ylor on The Doctor
"Fear breeds hatred and war. I shall speak to them peaceably. They'll see I'm un
armed; there's no better argument against war than that." ~Temmosus
"Oh, yes, I like The Doctor. It's funny but, as soon as he walked in, I felt tha
t you could trust him. But why does he wear those funny clothes?" ~Vicki
"The Doctor's curious. That means we stay." ~Barbara Wright
I don't make threats. But I do keep promises. And I promise you I shall cause yo
u more trouble than you bargained for if you don't return my property!
The Troughton Era
"I see. You're determined to be mysterious." ~Astrid to The Doctor
"I never talk nonsense. Well, hardly never." ~The Doctor
"Life depends on change and renewal." ~The Doctor
"Come on, Jamie, we'd better humour him." ~The Doctor as he is being arrested
"You don't want to believe everything you see, Jamie." ~The Doctor
"'TARDIS' is a...is a Gaelic word." ~The Doctor
"No, Mr. Terrall, I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far
wider academy of which human nature is only a part. All forms of life interest m
e." ~The Doctor
"[Is the dress] a bit short? Oh, I shouldn't worry about that; look at Jamie's!"
~The Doctor
"I used my own special technique [for figuring out how the Cybermen's ship works
]....Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut." ~The Doctor
"Some things are better left undone, and I have a feeling that this is one of th
em." ~The Doctor
"Oh, yes I can [remember my family] when I want to. And that's the point really.
I have to really want to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the t
ime they...they sleep in my mind and I forget. And so will you. Oh, yes, you wil
l. You'll find there's so much else to think about, to remember. Our lives are d
ifferent to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. There's nobody in the uni
verse can do what we're doing." ~The Doctor
"Jamie...remind me to give you a lesson in tying knots sometime." ~The Doctor
"The best thing about a machine that makes sense is that you can very easily mak
e it turn out nonsense." ~The Doctor
"I never answer questions until I'm properly introduced." ~The Doctor

"Oh, I always live in hope." ~The Doctor

"No one threatens Salamander!" ~The Doctor
"Sad really, isn't it? People spend all their time making nice things, and other
people come along and break them." ~The Doctor's response to terrorism and scar
e tactics
"Jamie...I think we're going to need torches." ~The Doctor
"A medical kit...? Ooh... It's surprising what you can do with a few chemicals a
nd a little ingenuity." ~The Doctor
"I wish...I wish I believed in wishing wells." ~The Doctor
"I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them." ~The Doctor
"Brigadier, you don't by any chance know where I can find a canoe...?" ~The Doct
or
"Zoe is something of a genius. It can be very irritating at times." ~The Doctor
"Oh, dear... What a silly old idiot I am..." ~The Doctor
"It is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved in things." ~The Doctor
"Your leader will be furious if you kill me. [sadly] I'm a genius." ~The Doctor
"They like making speeches..." ~The Doctor on the Time Lords
"Earth seems more vulnerable than others." ~The Doctor
"If there's trouble to be found, the Doctor and Jamie can't miss it." ~Zoe Herio
t
"I'm smaller than you, and I'll probably be a lot quieter, too." ~Zoe Heriot to
Jamie McCrimmon
"Revenge is a very human emotion." ~The Intelligence
"He's a right little delinquent, isn't he?" ~Ben Jackson on The Doctor
"I can't very well report back to a seventeenth century Navy..." ~Ben Jackson
"They may look like amateurs, but that man has an incredible knack for being one
jump ahead of everyone. If there is a safe way into that place, he'll be the on
e to find it." ~Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart about The Doctor
"When you've been with the Doctor as long as I have, you begin to realize you do
n't know what he's talking about..." ~Jamie McCrimmon
"The great hairy beastie...it's the Doctor!" ~Jamie McCrimmon
"A nip [in the air]? A nip?! Look at my knees; they're bloody blue!" ~Jamie McCr
immon
???You know something? You're a clever wee chappie.??? ~Jamie McCrimmon to the D
octor
"Zoe, watch him. You know what he's like..." ~Jamie McCrimmon about the Doctor
"Which end did he land on when he fell down that shaft?" ~Jamie McCrimmon about
The Doctor
"If you're going to be in trouble, you'll need me to look after you." ~Jamie McC
rimmon
"Whenever there's any trouble, he's in it right up to his neck." ~Jamie McCrimmo
n
"I don't think you could annoy that man even if you wanted to. He's being as nic
e as pie." ~Jamie McCrimmon about Tobias Vaughn
"The Doctor stubs his toe on a rock and Jamie laughs enthusiastically." ~Narrati
on in "Enemy of the World"
"The computer is not designed to take risks, but that is the essence of man's pr
ocess. We must decide." ~Penley
"Some crazy man dancing a jig!" ~Random guy describing the Second Doctor
"Well, when I was a little girl, I thought I'd like to be a scientist...so I bec
ame a scientist." ~Anne Travers' reaction to "What's a girl like you doing in a
place like this?"
"We will now change the subject, please." ~Victoria Waterfield chastising Jamie
for suggesting she wear more revealing clothes
"I'd only lose it if I [wrote things on paper]. Writing on a wall's much safer.
You can't lose a wall, can you?" ~Isobel Watkins
The Pertwee Era
"This planet smells to me of failure." ~Azal
"The secret to human creativity is inefficiency." ~B.O.S.S.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. They're only dummies...I think." ~The Doctor
"My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere. Particularly not 'forthwith'
." ~The Doctor
"It's not worth fifteen million pins if it doesn't work." ~The Doctor
"All I can tell you is that it was something very very large and very very alive
." ~The Doctor
"I have no time to speak to undersecretaries, permanent or otherwise." ~The Doct
or
"My dear fellow, I simply don't happen to have a pass....Because I don't believe
in them, that's why." ~The Doctor
"Ah, that's typical. I never did trust those stupid things [computers]." ~The Do
ctor
"Don't worry... It'll switch itself off...eventually." ~The Doctor
"Didn't you find two angry men stuck to my car?" ~The Doctor
"I should like to take a look at these mysteriously radiated astronauts myself."
~The Doctor
"There's Miss Shaw. She's much more practical than I am." ~The Doctor
"Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital importance to you, profes
sor...That you. sir, are a nitwit!" ~The Doctor
"I'm not sick, I'm not in need of a doctor, and I'm not a raving idiot." ~The Do
ctor
"Thank you, Brigadier. Do you think for once in your life, you could manage to a
rrive _before_ the nick of time?" ~The Doctor
"Apart from losing The Master and the missile, you're doing very well, Brigadier
." ~The Doctor
"Before you start annihilating the thing, why don't we just take a look at it?"
~The Doctor
"I'm every kind of scientist." ~The Doctor
"I want to see the universe, not rule it!" ~The Doctor
"I'd better go have a word with the Brigadier. He's probably bursting a blood ve
ssel by now..." ~The Doctor
"I want you to do away and give man a chance to grow up." ~The Doctor
"This won't do at all! We can't have two of us running about." ~The Doctor
"It's a very complicated thing, time, Jo. Once you've begun tampering with it, t
he oddest things start happening." ~The Doctor
"It's a most good-humoured wine. A touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical. Yes
, a most civilized wine. One after my own heart." ~The Doctor
"When I meet a regime that needs to import savage alien life forms as security g
uards, I begin to wonder who the real criminals are." ~The Doctor
"Must have been a pretty substantial type of ghost to have shifted a solid grani
te statue." ~The Doctor
"Well, I gather that you have made a complete hash of things." ~The Doctor
"We'd all become unpeople undoing unthings untogether. Fascinating." ~The Doctor
"Superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just do not go together." ~The Doct
or
"Ignore him, just ignore him. He's incorrigibly frivolous." ~The Third Doctor ab
out the Second
"I hope I don't meet me again." ~The Doctor
"Good! That must be the live terminal!" ~The Doctor after a man yelped in pain
"I'm quite spry for my age, actually..." ~The Doctor
"Because I am very fond of delta particles." ~The Doctor
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by n
o means the most interesting." ~The Doctor
"I am just a tourist. I like it here." ~The Doctor on Earth
"I never lie. Well, hardly never." ~The Doctor
"When miners have to take up arms to protect their rights, they probably have th
eir reasons." ~The Doctor
"Now I know what a fly feels like. What an absolutely fascinating experience." ~
The Doctor

"Look - much as I admire your stoic acceptance of the inevitable, I would apprec
iate it if you would shut up for a moment." ~The Doctor
"Fear breeds hatred, your majesty. Fear is the greatest enemy of them all, for f
ear leads us to war." ~The Doctor
"Don't you see, I'm just a temporal anomaly." ~The Second Doctor
"I will say one thing for your Doctor - he has quite a knack for talking himself
out of trouble." ~Eckersley
"We've no idea what you're talking about, Doctor." ~Jo Grant
"Looks a bit doomy." ~Jo Grant
"Funnily enough, they didn't include Atlantean chains in my escapology class." ~
Jo Grant
"I'm fine. Dead, of course, but I'm fine." ~Jo Grant
"Only you could manage to have a traffic accident in space." ~Jo Grant
"Gone to get you a maggot." ~Jo Grant's idea of a romantic gift
"You are not accustomed to feeling frightened, are you, Doctor?" ~The Great One
"All bloodhounds look disappointed. It's an occupational hazard." ~George Hardim
an
"Sergeant, we must do the fertility dance to celebrate." ~Miss Hawthorne
"He's more unconscious than anyone I've ever seen." ~Dr. Henderson
"Is this Doctor a long-shanked rascal with a mighty nose?" ~Irongron
"You shouldn't feel ashamed of your grief. It's right to grieve. Bert was unique
. In the whole history of the world, there's never been anybody just like Bert,
and there'll never be another, even if the world lasts for a hundred million cen
turies." ~Dr. Clifford Jones
"Sometimes you can be very aggravating." ~Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
to Dr. Liz Shaw
"The Doctor's qualified to do almost anything." ~Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethb
ridge-Stewart
"You are incorrigibly meddlesome, Doctor, but we've always felt your hearts are
in the right places." ~Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
"Ten...What are you DOING, Doctor?" ~Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewar
t
"I sometimes wish I worked in a bank." ~Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
"Three of 'em. I didn't know when I was well off..." ~Brigadier Alistair Lethbri
dge-Stewart on The Doctor(s)
"Wonderful chap...both of him." ~Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart about The
Doctor
"I'm not such a dunderhead as some of you might think." ~Brigadier Alistair Leth
bridge-Stewart
"Well, I never thought I'd fire in anger at a dratted caterpillar, but..." ~Brig
adier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
"Well, don't just stand there, Benton. Go and put yourself under arrest." ~Briga
dier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
"I suppose you can take the normal precautions against nuclear blasts. Like, uh,
sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing." ~The Master
"Displaying your usual sickening lovability, I suppose." ~The Master to The Doct
or
"'Do. Not. Fail. The Daaaaaleks,' indeed, you stupid tin boxes..." ~The Master
"To borrow a TARDIS was a little...naughty, to say the least." ~K'anpo Rinpoche
"One is only frightened when there is hope of rescue." ~Sabor
"I just heard your wind effect gnashing its teeth." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"As far as I can tell from your file at UNIT, the difficult thing is to stop you
from talking." ~Stevens
"I like your handbag." ~Captain Mike Yates to the Third Doctor
The Baker T Era
"Or we could just look out through the door." ~Adric
"You mean he's done it again?" ~Sergeant Benton on regeneration
"You will never amount to anything in the galaxy while you retain your propensit
y for vulgar facetiousness." ~Cardinal Borusa, underestimating The Doctor once a

gain
"Wonderful thing, pain. Without pain, no race could survive." ~Dr. Carter
"The data that was drained from the girl shows the Doctor's long association wit
h libertarian causes. His entire history is one of opposition to conquest. While
he lives, he is a threat." ~Chedaki
"What are you, exactly? Some sort of wandering Armageddon peddler?" ~Adam Colby
"We're beset by a wandering lunatic." ~Adam Colby about The Doctor
"Please do not throw hands at me." ~D84
"You may be a Doctor, but I am The Doctor. The definite article, you might say."
~The Doctor
"A new body's like a new house - takes a little time to settle in." ~The Doctor
"You must cultivate a sense of urgency." ~The Doctor
"Assuming I'm right - and I invariably am..." ~The Doctor
"Rather a splendid paradox, eh, Brigadier? The only ones who could do it wouldn'
t need to." ~The Doctor on advanced technology
"Of course I'll talk to him. I'll talk to anybody." ~The Doctor
"The trouble with computers is, they're very sophisticated idiots. They do exact
ly what you tell them at amazing speeds." ~The Doctor
"It's a free cosmos." ~The Doctor
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." ~The Do
ctor
"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, defenseles
s bipeds. They've survived flood, famine, and plague. They've survived cosmic wa
rs and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin
a new life, ready to out-sit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable. What d
o you think you're doing, Harry?" ~The Doctor
"My doctorate is purely honorary, and Harry here is only qualified to work on sa
ilors." ~The Doctor
"For once in my life, I feel surplus to requirement." ~The Doctor
"When I say I'm afraid, Sarah, I'm not making jokes." ~The Doctor
"It might be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favourite species."
~The Doctor
"There's plenty of room in the galaxy for us all." ~The Doctor
"Never throw anything away, Harry." ~The Doctor
"It's a mistake to clutter one's pockets, Harry." ~The Doctor
"I will not tolerate this continued interference in my life." ~The Doctor about
the Time Lords
"Excuse me... Can you help me? I'm a spy." ~The Doctor channeling Cap'n (not Cap
tain) Jack
"That is nasty. Better not tell Harry - he's gone first." ~The Doctor
"Explosives AND detonators. Seems almost providential." ~The Doctor
"If you two could put your weight on the door and stop it opening too suddenly..
. I don't want to lose my arm, I'm rather attached to it. It's so handy." ~The D
octor
"'Fragmetize'? Oh, well. I suppose we can't expect decent English from a machine
." ~The Doctor
"Careful, careful! I might explode!" ~The Doctor
"That's the trouble with ideas - they only come a bit at a time." ~The Doctor
"It's about time the people who run this planet of yours realize that to be depe
ndent on a mineral slime just doesn't make sense." ~The Doctor on oil
"[The sea] may be calm, but it's never empty." ~The Doctor
"Teeth are very serious things." ~The Doctor
"Some sort of primeval mating call...If my theory is correct, we're going to hav
e to handle this very, very carefully." ~The Doctor, proving that sometimes Torc
hwood _would_ come in handy
"I'm not a party to any kind of nonsense. Your grace." ~The Doctor
"Well, it takes all sorts to make a galaxy, your grace." ~The Doctor
"You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out onto the balcony som
etimes and wave a tentacle...if you'll pardon the expression." ~The Doctor

"Very good, very good! Almost impressive!" ~The Doctor

"Right! Let's see what other damage we can do!" ~The Doctor
"Yes, that's the TARDIS. And I'm going to pilot it all the way to London. I can
be there five minutes ago." ~The Doctor
"It's tempting to let them go ahead and destroy themselves. The trouble is, they
wouldn't be the only ones." ~The Doctor
"[The ship will be dragged down] faster and faster. Until, of course, we reach t
he surface, then we'll stop. With a bang." ~The Doctor
"Usually I only entertain friends in the TARDIS." ~The Doctor
"You and I are scientists, Professor. We buy our privilege to experiment at the
cost of total responsibility." ~The Doctor
"Come on, Sarah. We've an appointment in London, and we're already 30,000 years
late." ~The Doctor
"I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity." ~The Doctor
"If I knew, I wouldn't ASK. Don't be obtuse, man!" ~The Doctor
"I have the advantage of being slightly ahead of you. Sometimes behind you, but
normally ahead of you....I'm sure you don't [understand], but it's very nice of
you to try." ~The Doctor
"I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works." ~Th
e Doctor
"We don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we? I had enough of that in
1666." ~The Doctor
"Well, yes and no. Or no and yes. So to speak. As it were." ~The Doctor
"Don't worry, Sarah. Who'll notice me?" ~The Doctor
"I am awake! I think!" ~The Doctor
"Now, if you do see me again today, I want you to report it to me immediately. I
'll be with the CO in the scanner room." ~The Doctor
"If you're going to sit there wallowing in self pity, I'll bite your nose." ~The
Doctor's words of comfort to Sarah Jane Smith
"If I wanted to steal from you, would I come in through the front door?" ~The Do
ctor
"The consequences would be appalling." ~The Doctor on immortality
"Death is the price we pay for progress." ~The Doctor
"You thought I was dead! You're always making that mistake." ~The Doctor
"Keep calm, Sarah, keep calm. Whatever you do, keep-- You are calm." ~The Doctor
"Yes, money. Hired thieves and murderers don't usually work for love." ~The Doct
or
"That's right, grab us. We're very dangerous." ~The Doctor
"All [divination] takes is a good imagination and a glib tongue." ~The Doctor
"He takes away from man the only thing worth having...a sense of purpose, what e
lse? The ability granted to every intelligent species to shape its own destiny."
~The Doctor
"Oh, come off it, Hieronymous, you know who I am! You can drop all that bosh abo
ut sacred stones and profanity and just be your natural, horrid self." ~The Doct
or
"It's part of a Time Lord's job to insist on justice for all species." ~The Doct
or
"Nothing happened. A sort of unexplosion has taken place." ~The Doctor
"Eldrad, you'll achieve nothing on Kastria unless you overcome this paranoid obs
ession with treachery. You MUST cooperate." ~The Doctor giving a bit of advice w
e could all use
"I deny this reality. The reality is a computation matrix." ~The Doctor
"I can feel my hair curling. And that means either it's going to rain, or that I
'm on to something." ~The Doctor
"Never be certain of anything - it's a sign of weakness." ~The Doctor
"Now, drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby." ~The Doc
tor
"Gods don't use transceivers." ~The Doctor
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." ~The Doctor

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common - they don't alt
er their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which
can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
~The Doctor
"I like lots of people. I can't go carting them around the universe with me." ~T
he Doctor
"Come out of there. Don't touch that. Don't! Touch! That!" ~The Doctor, chasing
Leela into the TARDIS
"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained." ~The Doctor
"You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the
mouth and the size of the brain." ~The Doctor
"Oh, come on! Don't be upset. Yes, you've failed, you've failed. But failure is
one of the basic freedoms." ~The Doctor
"Right now, he must be a happy little maniac." ~The Doctor
"I see. You're one of those boring maniacs who's going to gloat. Are you going t
o tell me your plan for running the universe?" ~The Doctor
"I've always enjoyed messing about in boats." ~The Doctor
"My dear Litefoot, I've got a lantern, a pair of waders, and possibly the most f
earsome piece of artillery in all of England. What can possibly go wrong?" ~The
Doctor, who is evidently rather na???ve
"I brought you to the wrong time, my dear. You'd have loved Agincourt." ~The Doc
tor to Leela
"I have never appreciated frivolity." ~The Doctor
"When I'm crowded, I get nervous." ~The Doctor
"We don't have the place surrounded, we just have an understanding." ~The Doctor
"Gentlemen, I have news for you - this lighthouse is under attack, and by mornin
g we might all be dead. Heh. Anyone interested?" ~The Doctor
"Do you think your little speck in the galaxy is the only one with intelligent l
ife? Hm?" ~The Doctor
"That's the trouble with computers - always thinking in black and white. No aqua
marines, no blues, no imagination." ~The Doctor
"Rutan, that's the empty rhetoric of a defeated dictator. And I don't like your
face, either." ~The Doctor
"The virus has a perfect right to exist as a virus, not as a giant swarm threate
ning the entire solar system. Everything has its place, otherwise the delicate b
alance of the whole cosmos is destroyed." ~The Doctor
"She's done it! Well done, old girl, you're wonderful, wonderful. She's wonderfu
l. Isn't she wonderful? TARDIS wonderful. Haha!" ~The Doctor
"Your ancestors have a talent for self-destruction that borders on genius." ~The
Doctor on humans
"Good morning ladies! Now, which one of you has the time scanner, hm?" ~The Doct
or to cows
"I did say 'more or less,' though this does look rather less than more. You know
, I don't think these cows know anything about the time scanner." ~The Doctor
"I love fruitcake." ~The Doctor, admitting to cannibalism
"I like a jacket with a lot of pockets, don't you?" ~The Doctor
"Savage. Found floating down the Amazon in a hat box." ~The Doctor about Leela
"I have a gift for the apt phrase." ~The Doctor
"Why don't you listen to me, huh? Why don't you girls listen to me?" ~The Doctor
to Leela
"That's intensely interesting. Do you realize there's nowhere to go? We're on th
e edge of the cosmos, the frontiers of creation, the boundary between what is an
d isn't...or isn't yet, anyway. Don't you think that's interesting?...I feel jus
t like a goldfish looking out on a new world." ~The Doctor
"I've never been more serious in any of my lives." ~The Doctor
"Anyone who likes jelly babies can't be all bad." ~The Doctor
"Maybe I am getting too young for this sort of thing." ~The Doctor
"The secret to survival is always to expect the unexpected. [clang] Whoa...! Ow!
" ~The Doctor

"Oh, surely we can explain! 'Sorry, old thing, we were just helping ourselves to
your crown jewels.'" ~The Doctor
"Romana, you can't be a successful crook with a dishonest face, can you?" ~The D
octor
"If you call that being nearly killed, then you haven't lived yet. Just stay wit
h me, and you'll get a lot nearer." ~The Doctor
"Excuse me - are you sure this planet's meant to be here?" ~The Doctor
"Pah. 'Impossible.' That means it'll take 73 seconds." ~The Doctor
"The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive a
ttack." ~The Doctor
"I'll never be cruel to an electron in a particle accelerator again!" ~The Docto
r
"Bafflegab, my dear. I've never heard such bafflegab in all my lives." ~The Doct
or
"Yes, pow. Pow...pow's a...pow's a technical expression, Professor. It means tha
t all the microcircuits will be fused in one great UEGH of molten metal." ~The D
octor
"If they do break through, run as if something very nasty were after you, becaus
e something very nasty will be after you." ~The Doctor
"That takes me back...or forward. That's the trouble with time travel - you can
never remember." ~The Doctor
"Do you mind not standing on my chest? My hat's on fire." ~The Doctor
"Well, 'progress' is a very flexible word. It can mean just about anything you w
ant it to mean." ~The Doctor
"Listen, Romana, whenever you go into a new situation, you must always believe t
he best until you find out exactly what the situation's all about. THEN believe
the worst." ~The Doctor
"I've stopped the universe! Still, they'll never notice. Just think - someone so
mewhere has just slipped on a banana skin, and he'll be wondering forever when h
e's going to hit the ground." ~The Doctor
"Small is lovely." ~The Doctor
"If you're supposed to be the superior race in the universe, why don't you try c
limbing after us? Bye bye!" ~The Doctor taunting an army of Daleks
"I can see your long rest hasn't done anything to cure your megalomania." ~The D
octor to Davros
"I say, what a wonderful butler. He's so violent!" ~The Doctor
"Good heavens, are you locking us into a laboratory?" ~The Doctor
"A scientist's job is to ask questions." ~The Doctor
"I like concise answers." ~The Doctor
"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold ha
nds." ~The Doctor
"I suppose the best way to find out where you come from is to find out where you
're going and then work backwards." ~The Doctor
"I don't want to stand on protocol, but couldn't you at least do the done thing
and take me to your leader?" ~The Doctor
"I guess you could say 'the yoke's on him,' if you were the sort of person who s
aid that sort of thing, which fortunately I'm not." ~The Doctor
"Idiots? They're worse than idiots, they're bureaucrats. They just exist to tang
le people up; wrap them round and round in red tape until they can't move." ~The
Doctor
"What could possibly go wrong? OH! You know, I've simply _got_ to stop saying th
at. Every time I say 'What could possibly go wrong?' something goes wr--OH! It's
uncanny, isn't it?" ~The Doctor
"Fascinating, isn't it? I wonder what it would be like to be crushed into a sing
ularity...?" ~The Doctor
"Have you noticed that people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the mome
nt they start waving guns about?" ~The Doctor
"Why don't you give me the gun and I can keep an eye on myself so I don't get up
to any funny business...?" ~The Doctor
"You've got a lot to unlearn." ~The Doctor on human understanding of science

"Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station - the cosmos is full of them."
~The Doctor
"Why can't people be nice to one another, just for a change? I mean, I'm an alie
n, and you don't want to drag me into a swamp, do you? You do." ~The Doctor
"Knowing's easy - everyone does that ad nauseam. I just sort of hope." ~The Doct
or
"Someone's gotta stay on guard. And you can compute a reverse transition from ex
isting data - you love doing that!" ~The Doctor to K-9
"You know, I've never been one for swarming, It's awfully kind of you, but where
were you thinking of swarming to?" ~The Doctor
"Pst! You are wonderful." ~The Doctor to Romana II
"You, young lad - you're going straight home." ~The Doctor to Adric at the end o
f his second serial
"He's gone again...! It's like talking to a Cheshire Cat!" ~The Doctor about Bir
oc (and not the other way round, surprisingly enough)
"One good, solid hope's worth a cartload of certainties." ~The Doctor
"The old home universe..." ~The Doctor
"I thought you might appreciate it if I gave you the impression I knew what was
happening. We could panic, but where would that get us?" ~The Doctor
"If I knew everything that was going to happen, where would the fun be?" ~The Do
ctor
"Time reveals everything, Adric." ~The Doctor
"Ah, good afternoon! Or good morning! Or is it evening? It's very difficult to k
eep track of time around here." ~The Doctor
"Clarity is the soul of knowing what the other chap's going to do." ~The Doctor
"[The TARDIS is mine] on a sort of finders, keepers basis." ~The Doctor
"This is life; nothing's sure." ~The Doctor
"Never guess...unless you have to. There's enough uncertainty in the universe as
it is." ~The Doctor
"Never mind about the time slip; we're on holiday." ~The Doctor
"Invent a codeword, they love that. What about Operation Nuthouse?" ~Amelia Duca
t
"Can anyone join in this conversation, or do you need a certificate?" ~Duggan
"That chap you called in from UNIT? Is he quite sane?" ~Richard Dunbar about The
Doctor
"I most emphatically do not eat people." ~Erato
"Sometimes the voice of reason is more effective than the burning iron." ~Duke G
iuliano
"Prognostication impossible in matters concerning Doctor." ~K-9
"Optimism - Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on
insane." ~K-9
"You deserve a medal for self-sacrifice beyond the bounds of stupidity." ~Kellma
n
"You try that again, and I'll cripple you!" ~Leela
"If you're bleeding, look for a man with scars." ~Leela
"The second principle is that humans can't harm robots. I know, I've tried and t
hey don't bleed." ~Leela
"Doctor, you make me wear strange clothes, you tell me nothing - you are trying
to annoy me." ~Leela
"Professor Litefoot has been explaining to me about tea. It's very complicated."
~Leela
"I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me to believe in sc
ience. It is better to believe in science." ~Leela
"Doctor, I'm coming with you....I want to. You'll need someone." ~Leela
"Perhaps [I am a savage]. I am not ashamed of what I am, and I tell you, I smell
danger." ~Leela
"Do not worry, Doctor. I shall protect you." ~Leela
"I'm sure the Doctor can help you. Oh, he's very difficult at times, but he has
great knowledge and gentleness." ~Leela
"These taxes? They are like sacrifices to tribal gods?" ~Leela

"Discussion is for the wise or the helpless. I am neither." ~Leela

"He used to drive me mad. But I miss having him about." ~Brigadier Alistair Gord
on Lethbridge-Stewart
"Just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets." ~Bri
gadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
"You've both escaped from somewhere, haven't you?" ~Ted Moss to The Doctor and L
eela
"When Time Lords get to be my age, they tend to get their tenses mixed up." ~The
Professor
"The sound of undergraduates talking to one another - I tried to have it banned.
.." ~The Professor
"Thank of me as a paradox in an anomaly, and get on with your tea." ~The Profess
or
"You do know that sarcasm's an adjusted stress reaction?" ~Romana I
"[The Doctor]'s the one you should be talking to - or rather, listening to...if
you have the stamina." ~Romana I
"Are you trying to take my mind off of something? Because you're almost succeedi
ng." ~Romana I to The Doctor
"If _you_ wanted an omelet, I'd expect to find a pile of broken crockery, the co
oker in flames, and an unconscious chef." ~Romana II
"We don't want several hundred cubic feet of angry blob heaving itself around th
e country crushing people." ~Romana II
"Oh, don't mind him; he just likes to irritate people." ~Romana II on The Doctor
"There isn't anything that stands as little chance as you do out there." ~Romana
II to The Doctor
"I know it's very hard to understand, and it's very easy to be sarcastic." ~Roma
na II
"I have watched you in your jackdaw meanderings. I know you, and I know there is
a want of patience in your nature." ~The Shadow to The Doctor
"Harry, call me 'old girl' again, and I'll spit in your eye." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"Harry, I am NOT a thing." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"Well, we can't just sit here glittering, can we?" ~Sarah Jane Smith
"One thing about you Harry, you never miss the obvious." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"You always get rude when you're trying to cover up a mistake." ~Sarah Jane Smit
h
"So pedantic at a time like this. It doesn't matter!" ~Sarah Jane Smith
"I'm sure you shouldn't drink so soon after breaking your neck." ~Sarah Jane Smi
th
"I hate sarcasm...especially when I'm dying." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"And what are we going to use for air?" ~Sarah Jane Smith
"So, provided we don't burn up on reentry and aren't suffocated on the way down,
we'll probably be smashed to a pulp when we land." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"If you stop breaking my arm, I might like you a bit." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"You know, the worse the situation, the worse your jokes get?" ~Sarah Jane Smith
to The Doctor
"I'll never be warm again. Never, ever, ever." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"I must be mad. I'm sick of being cold and wet and hypnotised left, right, and c
entre. I'm sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if
I'm coming or going, or BEING. Oh, I want a bath. I want my hair washed. I just
want to feel _human_ again." ~Sarah Jane Smith's breakup letter
"Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. First law of the sea!" ~Lieutenant
Harry Sullivan
"I'll get you out of there if I have to knock his bally head off and steal his k
eys." ~Lieutenant Harry Sullivan
"The reaction is almost certain to be over." ~Tremas of Traken
"Never trust a man as wears a hat." ~Martha Tyler
"The Doctor has the maturity to respect many points of view." ~Zastor
The Davison Era

"I thought the whole point of the Pharos project was to track down alien intelli
gences. We thought we'd save you the trouble and come to you." ~Adric
"Oh, [The Doctor]'s always in trouble, Tegan. Or hadn't you noticed? It amuses h
im." ~Adric
"What do you do with a cocktail in a bath?!" ~Adric
"Do you know, I think since his regeneration he's become decidedly immature." ~A
dric about The Fifth Doctor, ironically enough
"So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can." ~Per
i Brown in response to "I am The Master!"
"So, you got a merit badge in tracking when you were a boy scout; I'm suitably i
mpressed." ~Peri Brown to The Doctor
"You're a very confusing person to be with, Doctor, you know that?" ~Peri Brown
"You, my dear, can't possibly exist, so go away." ~Creepy woman in Tegan's mind
maybe
"The tall one with the fair hair. Even under the threat of death, he still has t
he arrogance of a Time Lord." ~The Cyberleader
"I wonder, boy: what would you do if you were me? Hmm? Or perhaps I should ask,
'What would I do if I were me?'" ~The Doctor channeling his first incarnation
"I think it does us good to be reminded that the universe isn't entirely peopled
with nasty creatures out for themselves." ~The Doctor
"I feel quite like my old self. Well....Well...Whoever I feel like, it's absolut
ely splendid." ~The Doctor
"Last time I was [at Heathrow], they were doing strange things to Terminal Three
." ~The Doctor
"Well, take the advice of a madman and look happy!....Try to look as if you're e
njoying yourself - in these situations, it's the best form of defense. And it gi
ves me time to think." ~The Doctor
"There you are, Tegan: there's always something to look at, if you open your eye
s." ~The Doctor
"Whatever it is, it could be distinctly unfriendly." ~The Doctor
"Adric, there is a difference between serious, scientific investigation and medd
ling....ISN'T there?!" ~The Doctor
"Intentions unknown, hypothesis: unfriendly, as K-9 would say." ~The Doctor
"Look, if we turn out to be hostile, then fair enough. Until we do, why not give
us the benefit of the doubt? It's common sense, really, don't you think?" ~The
Doctor
"An apple a day keeps the, uh... No, never mind." ~The Doctor
"Oh, good. That is good news, isn't it? If in doubt, then fire and acid every ti
me, don't you think?" ~The Doctor
"Oh, he'll be alright. He was just driven out of his mind - just what he needed.
" ~The Doctor
"I think paradise is a little too green for me, as well." ~The Doctor
"Try to understand something, Adric - because you get away with something, it do
esn't justify it." ~The Doctor
"Next time you want to escape from somewhere, _walk_." ~The Doctor
"I've met kings, emperors, megalomaniacs in my time." ~The Doctor
"What's the matter, old girl? Why this compulsion for planet Earth?" ~The Doctor
, asking the question the audience had been wondering for nigh-on two decades
"Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?" ~The Doctor
"You said he was a friend from Brazil....Where the nuts come from." ~The Doctor
"E-Space is another universe! There isn't a taxi service goes back and forth!" ~
The Doctor
"Well, that isn't right. Or is it?" ~The Doctor
"I want to announce my PRESENCE!" ~The Doctor
"If the freighter crashes into Earth with you on board, won't that make it rathe
r difficult for you to carry out your task? I mean, you would be very crumpled."
~The Doctor
"For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!" ~The Docto
r
"We can't have a navigational hazard like that hanging about the galaxy." ~The D

octor about a random rift through the middle of Heathrow

"It's times like this I wish I still had my scarf." ~The Doctor
"You know how it is - put things off for a day, and suddenly it's a hundred year
s later." ~The Doctor
"The sixth face of Delusion is the wearer's own. That was probably the idea, don
't you think?" ~The Doctor
"I tried keeping a diary once. Not chronological, of course, but the trouble wit
h time travel is one never seems to find the time." ~The Doctor
"Curiosity's always been my downfall." ~The Doctor
"I AM telling the truth. I KEEP telling the truth. Why is it no one believes me?
" ~The Doctor
"I owe it to my friend to try, because I got her into this." ~The Doctor
"Hello. I'm here to read the meter." ~The Doctor
"Zombies appear to have very nimble fingers." ~The Doctor
"I don't know what this Doctor's qualifications are, but if you ask me, the man'
s a lunatic." ~Heathrow Security Guard
"We sent armed guards when a friendly face and a welcoming hand would have suffi
ced. Are you surprised that he resisted?" ~Councilor Hedin
"You have the mouth of a prattling jackanapes. But your eyes...they tell a diffe
rent story." ~Sharaz Jek to The Doctor
"My dad used to say that 'if' is the most powerful word in the English language.
" ~Tegan Jovanka
"A landing's a landing..." ~Tegan Jovanka
"Why do you always have some incomprehensible answer?" ~Tegan Jovanka to The Doc
tor
"I don't fancy a non-stop mystery tour of the galaxy." ~Tegan Jovanka, indicatin
g that she is on the wrong show
"You're weird, Turlough." ~Tegan Jovanka
"In thirty years of soldiering, I have never encountered such destructive power
as I have seen displayed here and now by the British school boy." ~Brigadier Ali
stair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
"The universe is purged of The Doctor and his impossible dreams of goodness." ~T
he Master
"I'm sorry. Your cremation will deprive me of our periodic encounters." ~The Mas
ter to The Doctor
"Obey the shiny one." ~Chief Elder Timanov
"As a scientist, it's easy to be tyrannized by facts." ~Nyssa of Traken
"You look so sweet when you get angry." ~Vislor Turlough, about to get a smack
"The worst place in the universe - English public school on Earth." ~Vislor Turl
ough
"Look after him, won't you? He gets into the most terrible trouble." ~Vislor Tur
lough to Peri Brown about The Doctor
The Baker C Era
"It's only a little radiation sickness between friends." ~Peri Brown
"Every time you sound confident now a days, something terrible seems to happen."
~Peri Brown
"I love games, Doctor. Games where I'm not expecting to end up dead." ~Peri Brow
n
"You certainly specialize in arcane knowledge." ~Peri Brown to The Doctor
"Oh, I do wish you would stop switching personal pronouns." ~Peri Brown to The D
octor
"I don't need anyone to speak up for me; I'm quite capable of defending myself!"
~Melanie Bush
"'Brown study'? Is the vocabulary of all the Time Lords so antediluvian?" ~Melan
ie Bush
"I'm as truthful, honest, and about as boring as they come." ~Melanie Bush
"There are times in our relationship when I feel an interpreter wouldn't come am
iss." ~Melanie Bush to The Doctor
"I'm not people, Peri, I happen to be me." ~The Doctor

"My outward appearance is of no importance whatsoever." ~The Doctor

"[Five] had a sort of...feckless charm. Simply wasn't me." ~The Doctor
"Regeneration in my case is a swift but volcanic experience, a sort of violent b
iological eruption, in which the body cells are displaced, changed, renewed, and
rearranged. There are bound to be side effects." ~The Doctor
"I'm a knight errant, not an errant fool." ~The Doctor
"The purpose of reconnaissance is to gather information, not to finish up face-d
own in a pool of one's own blood." ~The Doctor
"You have a nasty habit of pinpointing the truth, young man." ~The Doctor to Hug
o Lang
"I may be behaving like a manic barometer, but don't shrug off help when it's of
fered." ~The Doctor
"Of course I'm all right! I'm certainly all right! It's the situation that's all
wrong." ~The Doctor, who is rather more forceful than the Tenth
"See it more as a mental stroll in a sea of psychic tranquility." ~The Doctor
"In my time, I have been threatened by experts. I don't rate you very highly at
all." ~The Doctor
"You seem to forget, Peri, I'm not only from another culture, but another planet
. I am in your terms an alien. I am therefore bound to have different values and
customs." ~The Doctor
"Whatever else happens, I AM The Doctor. Whether you like it or not." ~The Docto
r
"I shall beat it into submission with my charm." ~The Doctor
"We weren't getting very far with me playing patticake with the wall." ~The Doct
or
"I know perfectly well what category of disaster has befallen us." ~The Doctor
"Peri! You really have an extraordinary capacity for seeking out danger." ~The D
octor
"I don't think I could stand it. A hyperactive Peri - too ghastly to contemplate
." ~The Doctor
"The Rani is a genius. Shame I can't stand her." ~The Doctor
"No thanks, I've given them up. Guns can seriously damage your health, you know.
" ~The Doctor
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?" ~The Doctor
"I was imparting a little information! If you ask a question, you should listen
to the answer, my girl. Otherwise, you will gain absolutely no benefit from bein
g in my company. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and the privilege of
wisdom to listen." ~The Doctor
"It's Jamie! How did he get here? He should be with me!" ~The Doctor
"I seem to remember I was always rather fond of Jamie." ~The Doctor
"I exist, therefore I am and was." ~The Doctor
"When you've been locked in as many dungeons as I have, you wouldn't fail to rec
ognize it." ~The Doctor
"If anything happens to myself, I will never forgive himself." ~The Doctor
"When you travel around as much as I do, it's almost inevitable that you'll run
into yourself at some point." ~The Doctor
"Colliding with a time corridor is something one tries to avoid!" ~The Doctor
"You sound as irritatingly resolute as another young lady I know very well." ~Th
e Doctor comparing Vena to Peri
"Goodbye, Herbert. Perhaps I will allow you to exorcise me another time." ~The D
octor
"You gave me your word, you micro-cephalic apostate!" ~The Doctor
"There's nothing particularly masculine about throwing your life away." ~The Doc
tor
"America doesn't have a monopoly on bad taste." ~The Doctor
"I never thought precognizance of my own death would be so disturbing." ~The Doc
tor
"Even I would find it hard to lose myself in a corridor." ~The Doctor
"That's another billion-to-one chance. Does begin to seem unlikely, doesn't it?"
~The Doctor

"I always like to do the unexpected; takes people by surprise!" ~The Doctor
"Clever ol' me!" ~The Doctor
"I refute any implication that I'm barmy." ~The Doctor
"I shall be as quiet as the silence that is in the starry skies...only quieter s
till." ~The Doctor
"I doubt that there will ever be sufficient time for [me to overcome the distres
s of my bereavement], My Lady." ~The Doctor
"Mel, have you studied my ears lately?" ~The Doctor, commenting on carrot juice
"You'll worry sooner when I start to bray." ~The Doctor, commenting on carrot ju
ice
"Must be the carrot juice making me colour blind." ~The Doctor
"I can't rid m'self of the feeling I'm being used." ~The Doctor
"I'm subject to whims, I'm told." ~The Doctor
"No. More a sort of clown, actually. Would you care to hear my rendering of 'On
With the Motley'?" ~The Doctor's response to "What are you, a comedian?"
"Um... Time is a comparative concept, commodore." ~The Doctor
"'Satiable curtiosity.' Like the Elephant's Child." ~The Doctor
"In all my travelings across the universe, I have battled against evil. Against
power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization, deca
dent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontar
ans, Cybermen... They're still in the nursery compared to us! Ten million years
of absolute power; that's what it takes to be REALLY corrupt!" ~The Doctor
"Oh. Oh, what an unpleasant journey." ~The Doctor
"I've always been a bit of an iconclast by nature." ~The Doctor
"This is a very odd waiting room. Where are the hopelessly out of date magazines
?" ~The Doctor
"This is an illusion! I deny it!" ~The Doctor
"Unless we are prepared to sacrifice our lives for the good of us all, then evil
and anarchy will spread like the plague." ~The Doctor
"I have never been able to resist a touch of the Grand Guinol, have we?" ~The Do
ctor
"I shall complain when this is over!" ~The Second Doctor
"Officially, I'm here quite unofficially." ~The Second Doctor
"I have no doubt that you could augment an earwig to the point where it understo
od nuclear physics, but it would still be a stupid thing to do!" ~The Second Doc
tor
"Do keep out of my way in the future and the past, there's a good fellow. The ti
me continuum should be big enough for the both of us. Just." ~The Second Doctor
to the Sixth
"What a way to go... All in all not a bad old codger. Honest, of course. Still,
nobody's perfect." ~Sabalom Glitz's eulogy for The Doctor
"You Time Lords take the cake. Talk about devious... Compared to you lot, I'm tr
ansparent as crystal." ~Sabalom Glitz
"I just feel a wee bit nervous. I didn't realize dying heroically was such a str
ain on the nerves." ~Herbert
"It would take a mountain to crush an ego like yours." ~Jobel to The Doctor
"You can't mistake him; he's mean-looking. Wears yellow trousers and a vulgar-co
loured coat." ~The Master about the Sixth Doctor
"Style is hardly the prime characteristic of your new regeneration." ~The Master
to the Sixth Doctor
"I must intervene for the sake of...justice." ~The Master
"You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests; you bring nothing but trou
ble." ~The Rani to The Master
"What's he up to now? It'll be something devious and over-complicated. He'd get
dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line." ~The Rani about The Master
"Grandiose schemes of ruling the universe will mean nothing if that dilettante D
octor is still at large." ~The Rani
"Oh, Doctor, you do have the knack of landing yourself in hot water." ~Rudge
"You seem to have a great talent for straying from the straight and narrow." ~Th
e Valeyard to The Doctor

"You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept." ~The Valeyard

The McCoy Era
"You also seem to be a victim of Mr. Glitz's cavalier attitude towards fact." ~B
elazs
"What you wear is high fashion and ice hot for an old one." ~Bin Liner
"Yes, you've changed outwardly, but I'm sure you must still have the same sweet
nature." ~Melanie Bush
"They kidnapped the Doctor. And no one would do that unless they were desperate
for his help; he's not exactly predictable." ~Melanie Bush
"If you could bend that BACK into shape and put it back where it came from, it m
ight be of more use." ~Melanie Bush to Pex
"Who said anything about home? I've got much more crazy things to do, yet." ~Mel
anie Bush
"How'd you know what I'm like? I've Regenerated. I mean, look at me. Look at me!
" ~The Doctor
"Perhaps this is my new persona: sulky and bad tempered." ~The Doctor
"Absence makes the nose grow longer." ~The Doctor
"More hasta, less vista." ~The Doctor
"Nothing's just rubbish if you have an inquiring mind." ~The Doctor
"A stitch in time fills up space." ~The Doctor
"I'm wondering if you can lend me a pillow case and a broom handle." ~The Doctor
"I came here under a white flag, and I will leave here under that same white fla
g. And woe betide any man who breeches its integrity." ~The Doctor
"It's our only choice...apart from plan B - RUN!" ~The Doctor
"I've regenerated. The difference is purely perceptual." ~The Doctor
"Glitz, I sympathise with your disappointment, but I'm about to plummet to my de
ath!" ~The Doctor
"I think we go straight on. Either that, or we don't." ~The Doctor
"Where have I heard of it before? I mean, where was it? Was it in the past, or i
s it in the future?" ~The Doctor
"Funny old business, time. It delights in frustrating your plans." ~The Doctor
"That's right, you're going. You've been going for ages. You're already gone. Yo
u're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends
on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time....I'm sorry, Mel
. Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a ne
at pattern. Think about the homeless traveler in his old police box, his days li
ke crazy paving." ~The Doctor
"Lack of food makes you obstreperous." ~The Doctor to Ace
"Ace, give me some of that Nitro 9 that you're not carrying." ~The Doctor
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." ~The Doctor
"Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception matched by only i
ts ingenuity when trying to destroy itself." ~The Doctor
"Frightening, isn't it, to find that there are others better versed at death tha
n human beings." ~The Doctor
"When I say 'Stay put,' I mean 'Stay put.' Not 'Take on an entire Dalek assault
squad single-handed." ~The Doctor
"Dalek hunting is a terminal pastime." ~The Doctor
"Daleks are such boring conversationalists." The Doctor
"Time will tell. It always does." ~The Doctor
"Only a fool argues with his Doctor." ~Group Captain Ian Gilmore
"Scared? Why should you be scared? You're the one with the gun." ~The Doctor
"Happiness is nothing unless it exists side by side with sadness." ~The Doctor
"There are no other colours without the blues." ~The Doctor
"This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas
on this sad planet." ~The Doctor
"This is no madness. 'Tis England." ~The Doctor
"Hello! I'm The Doctor! I believe you want to kill me." ~The Doctor
"I believe in the direct approach." ~The Doctor
"If he was a mortician, the corpses would keep their eyes open." ~Sabalom Glitz

"You're a man of insight and logic, Doctor." ~Sabalom Glitz

"'Impossible.' You know, after this is over, I'm going to retire and raise begon
ias." ~Rachel Jensen
"Professor, I'm hungry! Lack of food makes me hungry, you know." ~Ace McShane
"I had an argument with a window." ~Ace McShane
"They hate each other's chromosomes." ~Ace McShane about Daleks
"You'd better listen to him, weasel features, 'cause he's The Doctor!" ~Ace McSh
ane
"Let them kill me, Doctor. Don't surrender." ~Ace McShane
"You're a nice guy, Doctor, but a little weird." ~Earl Sigma
"[Suzie Q] can take out a loud speaker playin' muzak at a hundred paces." ~Earl
Sigma
The McGann Era
"I love humans...always seeing patterns in things that aren???t there." ~The Doc
tor
The Eccleston Era
"How exactly are you a fan? In what way do you resemble a means of keeping onese
lf cool?" ~Charles Dickens to The Doctor
"I hope this theory will be validated soon...if not immediately." ~Charles Dicke
ns
"I want to find a blonde in a Union Jack....I mean a specific one. I didn't just
wake up this morning with a craving." ~The Doctor
"There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mum
my." ~The Doctor
"Don't worship me; I'd make a very bad god." ~The Doctor
"I'm getting old." ~The Doctor
"Everything has its time. Everything dies." ~The Doctor
"Oh, don't be so thick. Like I was ever going to shoot..." ~The Doctor wielding
a BFG
"I'm The Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk." ~The Doctor
"I'm dead or about to die, and that's okay - hope it's a good death." ~The Docto
r
"If you want to remember me, you can do one thing. That's all, one thing: have a
good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life." ~The Doctor
"If you're going to deny it, don't waste my time, just shut up." ~The Doctor
"Now don't antagonize her - I love a happy medium." ~The Doctor
"An ordinary man, that's the most important thing in existence." ~The Doctor
"'The past is another country...' 1987 is just the Isle of Wight." ~The Doctor
"I'm really glad that worked... Those would have been terrible last words." ~The
Doctor
"I like bananas. Bananas are good." ~The Doctor
"[giggle] It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room." ~The Doc
tor
"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete..." ~The Doctor's excuse for not dancing
"I've traveled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy
friendly." ~The Doctor
"And everybody lives! I need more days like this." ~The Doctor
"Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up; there's gonna be a draf
t." ~The Doctor
"What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?" ~The Doctor
"It's brilliant! I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical...
" ~ The Doctor
"This is my life, Jackie. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up an
d making a decision because nobody else will." ~The Doctor
"You're happy to believe in something that's invisible, but if it's staring you
in the face, nope. Can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that: you'
re thick." ~The Doctor
"900 years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother."

~The Doctor
"Don't you dare make this place domestic." ~The Doctor, protecting his bachelor
pad
"Nothing is safe. Remember that. Nothing." ~The Doctor
"I think it's gone a little bit wrong." ~The Doctor
"Don't worship me; I'd make a very bad god. Wouldn't get a day off, for starters
." ~The Doctor
"Never underestimate plumbing. Plumbing's very important." ~The Doctor
"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" ~The Doctor
"There's no such thing as an ordinary human." ~The Doctor
"I came first in Jiggery Pokery." ~The Doctor
"It's a bit human in there for me." ~The Doctor
"You know, one day... Just one day, maybe I'm gonna meet someone who gets the wh
ole, 'Don't wander off' thing. Nine-hundred years of phonebox travel, it's the o
nly thing left to surprise me." ~The Doctor
"Who has a sonic screwdriver? Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'Oh, this c
ould be a bit more sonic!'?" ~Captain Jack Harkness
"First rule of active camouflage: Park somewhere you'll remember." ~Captain Jack
Harkness
"The way you were blending in with the local colour... I mean, Flag Girl was bad
enough, but U-Boat Captain?!" ~Captain Jack Harkness
"I'm getting a hint of disapproval." ~Captain Jack Harkness
"Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock." ~Captain Jack Harkness explaining tha
t he was not "defrocked"
"I got myself a gun." ~Captain Jack Harkness
"Do I look like an out-of-bounds sort of guy?" ~Captain Jack Harkess
"I wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward." ~Captain
Jack Harkness
"Never doubted him, never will." ~Captain Jack Harkness on The Doctor
"Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left." ~Jabe
"Voicemail dooms us all." ~Harriet Jones
"Do your ears have special powers, too?" ~Nancy to The Doctor
"That's exactly what an internet lunatic murderer would say." ~Mickey Smith
"Give me some Spock for once! Would it kill you?" ~Rose Tyler to The Doctor
"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?" ~Rose Tyler to The Doc
tor
"Blimey, you can smell the testosterone." ~Rose Tyler
"I'd rather die...I mean it. I would rather die. It's better to die than to live
like you - a bitchy trampoline." ~Rose Tyler on plastic surgery
"Okay, that was flash... That was on the flash side." ~Rose Tyler to Captain Jac
k Harkness
"When he's stressed, he likes to insult species. Cuts himself shaving, he does h
alf an hour on life forms he's cleverer than." ~Rose Tyler
"I trust him 'cause he's like you...except with dating and dancing." ~Rose Tyler
talking to The Doctor about Captain Jack Harkness
"Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to
." ~Rose Tyler to The Doctor
"To get that many people dressed up and being silly, they've gotta be students."
~Rose Tyler
"He's not my boyfriend, Mickey. He's better than that. He's much more important.
" ~Rose Tyler on The Doctor
The Tennant Era
"Keeping it together... [sad little laugh] I'm only crying. I'm about to die; it
's not an overreaction." ~Anita
"I think he's a bit slow." ~Thomas Kincade Brannigan about the Doctor
"I think I understood some of those words...Enough to know that you're completel
y potty." ~Agatha Christie to The Doctor
"Sweet? Maybe. Passionate? I suppose. But don't ever mistake that for 'nice'." ~
The Doctor

"That is enigmatic. That is...that is textbook enigmatic." ~The Doctor

"Not bad for a man in his jim-jams. Very Arthur Dent." ~The Doctor
"No second chances. I'm that sort of a man." ~The Doctor
"Ooh, that's rude! Is that what I am now? Rude and not ginger?" ~The Doctor
"You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world! This ro
om's the greatest arsenal we could have." ~The Doctor
"With this ring, I thee biodamp." ~The Doctor
"Only a madman talks to thin air, and trust me, you don???t want to make me mad.
" ~The Doctor
"Nobody else in this entire galaxy has ever even bothered to make edible ball be
arings. Genius!" ~The Doctor
"I'm being facetious. I... There's no call for it." ~The Doctor
"I'm not...I'm not...I'm not...I'm not from Mars..." ~The Doctor
"But that's what you do, the human race ??? make sense out of chaos, marking it
out with...with weddings and Christmas and calendars. This whole process is beau
tiful, but only if it's being observed." ~The Doctor
"I make it up as I go along. But trust me, I've got a history." ~The Doctor
"Always bring a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good!" ~The Doctor
"Correctamundo!...a word I have never used before and hopefully never will again
." ~The Doctor
"Hmm... The world is very strange." ~The Doctor
"I'm no dinner lady...and I don't often say that." ~The Doctor
"Oh, who needs family? I've got the whole world on my shoulders." ~The Doctor
"You're a clever man... I'd call you a genius, but I'm in the room." ~The Doctor
"I'd better park her properly. She might drift off to the Middle Ages." ~The Doc
tor about the TARDIS
"Heh heh... I talk too much, that's my problem." ~The Doctor
"Hermits United. We meet up every ten years. Talk stories about caves. It's good
fun...if you're a hermit." ~The Doctor
"I'm the Doctor...and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour! [cackle]" ~The Doctor
"Every t??? Every time! It's Rule One: Don't wander off. I tell them, I do. Rule
One." ~The Doctor
"Stasis chamber - I do love a good stasis chamber." ~The Doctor
"Don't they teach recreational math anymore?" ~The Doctor
"Never waste time in a hug!" ~The Doctor (who obviously doesn't practice what he
preaches)
"And that's two impossible things we've seen tonight. Don't you love it when tha
t happens?" ~The Doctor (just four more and he can take a trip to Milliways)
"This is my timey-wimey detector. Goes 'ding' when there's stuff." ~The Doctor
"It's just...hard to go unnoticed when everyone's on red alert." ~The Doctor
"I had a passing fancy, only it didn't pass, it stopped." ~The Doctor
"Everything's coming up Doctor!" ~The Doctor
"The theatre's magic, isn't it? You should know. Stand on this stage, say the ri
ght words with the right emphasis at the right time... Oh, you can make men weep
, or cry with joy...change them. You can change people's minds just with words i
n this place." ~The Doctor
"Many things about this are not good." ~The Doctor
"Hello, surprise, boo, et cetera..." ~The Doctor
"Well, exactly. It plays music, what's the point of that? Oh, with music, you ca
n...dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it... Unless you???re a Dalek. Th
en it???s all just noise." ~The Doctor
"I know that one man can change the course of history. Right idea in the right p
lace at the right time, that's all it takes. I've got to believe it's possible."
~The Doctor
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...and maybe the odd pigslave
Dalek-human hybrid, too." ~The Doctor
"Oh, good, they've got nibbles! I love nibbles!" ~The Doctor
"Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the ti
me, it's the person." ~The Doctor

"Lazarus, back from the dead. Should have known, really..." ~The Doctor
"I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end
, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matte
rs to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust. If you live long enough, L
azarus, the only certainty is that you'll end up alone." ~The Doctor
"No muss, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death." ~
The Doctor
"I can't have you walking around with a time traveling teleport. You could go an
ywhere...twice. Second time to apologize." ~The Doctor to Captain Jack Harkness
"Hair! I'm not bald! Ooh... big hair. Sideburns - I've got sideburns! Or really
bad skin..." ~The Doctor
"No muss, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death." ~
The Doctor
"Brave choice, celery. But fair play to you - not a lot of men can pull off a de
corative vegetable." ~The Doctor to the Fifth Doctor
"It's not something you see every day, is it? The back of your own head. Mind yo
u, I can see why you wear a hat. I don't want to seem vain, but could you keep t
hat on?" ~The Doctor to the Fifth Doctor
"Hey, I'm the Doctor, I can save the universe using a kettle and some string. An
d look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable." ~The Doctor as the Fifth
"Check out this bone structure, Doctor, 'cause one day, you're gonna be shaving
it." ~The Doctor to the Fifth
"There ya go, end of the universe, butterfingers." ~The Doctor
"Back in the beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important,
like you do when you're young." ~The Doctor
"You two, we're at the end of the universe! Right on the edge of knowledge itsel
f, and you're busy...blogging!" ~The Doctor
"It really shouldn't take that long just to reverse the polarity. I must be out
of practice." ~The Doctor
"The human race... For such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Giv
e anyone a chance to take control, and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it
- easy life." ~The Doctor
"Haven't got a hotdog in there, have you? I'm starving....I know. It's the Cyber
man of food, but it's tasty." ~The Doctor
"I love not knowing - keeps me on my toes." ~The Doctor
"He called you a grunt! Don't call Ross a grunt. He's nice! We like Ross!" ~The
Doctor
"Eh...Just looks like a thing, doesn't it? People don't question things, they ju
st think, 'Eeuh, it's a thing.'" ~The Doctor
"Call me old fashioned, but, if you really wanted peace, couldn't you just STOP
FIGHTING?" ~The Doctor
"Let's save your wiles for later. In case of emergency." ~The Doctor to Donna
"Books. People never really stop loving books." ~The Doctor
"Without death, there'd only be comedies. Dying gives us size." ~The Doctor
"I never land on Sundays - Sundays are boring." ~The Doctor
"OH! I'm thick! Look at me - I'm old and thick! Head's too full of stuff; I need
a bigger head!" ~The Doctor
"I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archeologists." ~The Doctor
"If you understand me, look very, very scared....No, a bit more scared than that
....Okay, it'll do for now." ~The Doctor
"It's a screwdriver; it works in the dark." ~The Doctor
"Thing about me, I'm stupid, I talk to much. Always rambling on. This gob doesn'
t stop for anything. Wanna know the only reason I'm still alive? Always stay nea
r the door." ~The Doctor
"I'll try my hardest not to die - honestly, it's my main thing." ~The Doctor
"Oh, oh, oh...Look at that! I'm very good!" ~The Doctor, who is oh so very humbl
e
"If you don't do what she says, you're _really_ in trouble. Not from me, from he
r." ~The Doctor about Donna Noble
"Albert Hall, you've got a Graske on the loose...and he's stolen my water pistol

." ~The Doctor

"Well, that was fun...and a little bit mad." ~The Doctor
"I was tracking a hole in the fabric of reality. Call it a hobby." ~The Doctor
"Before I die of old age - which, in my case would be quite an achievement, so c
ongratulations on that..." ~The Doctor
"Worse it gets, the more I love it." ~The Doctor
"Don't be so daft! A captain CAN leave his ship if there's a bus standing by." ~
The Doctor
"I just open my mouth and words come out. They don't make much sense." ~The Doct
or
"That's the Adelaide Brooke I always wanted to meet; a woman with starlight in h
er soul." ~The Doctor
"Sounds like me - maintenance man of the universe." ~The Doctor
"Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. It wears down the clifftops, the
mountains, the whole world. Water always wins." ~The Doctor
"Who needs atom clamps? I have a funny robot!" ~The Doctor
"Even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes
sauntering away. And I'm dead." ~The Doctor
"Hold on, she's not going to be called 'Noble-Temple'? Sounds like a tourist spo
t." ~The Doctor
"You're a genius. You're stone cold brilliant you are, I swear, you really are.
But you could be so much more. You could be beautiful. With a mind like that...
We could travel the stars; it would be my honour. 'Cause you don't need to OWN t
he universe, just see it. Have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and spa
ce. That's ownership enough." ~The Doctor to The Master
"Actually, the most impressive thing about you is that, after all this time, you
're still bone-dead stupid." ~The Doctor to The Master
"Worst. Rescue. EVAH." ~The Doctor
"It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. Then it got worse; I got cleve
r. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives
too long." ~The Doctor
"I go zooming around space and time, saving planets, fighting monsters, and bein
g, well, let's be honest, pretty sort of marvelous." ~The Fifth Doctor
"That's a bit undramatic, isn't it? Belgium?" ~The Fifth Doctor
"Two minutes to Belgium." ~The Fifth Doctor
"Nose. I've had worse." ~The Eleventh Doctor
"I have the two qualities required to see absolute truth - I am brilliant and un
loved." ~Miss Evangelista
"Forget the shooty dog thing." ~Headmaster Finch
"You're quite the funny man...and yet I think laughing on purpose at the darknes
s." ~Mrs. Finnegan to The Doctor
"Was someone kissing me?" ~Captain Jack Harkness, coming back from the dead (aga
in)
"I got shot through the heart, then I woke up. Thought it was kinda strange." ~C
aptain Jack Harkness
"Argh. Slargh. Sngh." ~Information portal in The Library
"Trust me, just nod when he stops for breath." ~Martha Jones about the Doctor
"You've got your faith, you've got your songs and your hymns, and I've got the D
octor." ~Martha Jones
"You should take more care in the future...and the past...and whatever time peri
od you find yourself in." ~Martha Jones
"Scared AND holding a gun. 's a good combination; do you wanna risk it?" ~Martha
Jones
"Kenny blew up the school!" ~Melissa from "School Reunion"
"He's tall and thin, wears a brown suit - maybe a blue suit - he's got a long br
own coat. Modern sort of hair, all sticky uppy." ~Wilfred Mott about The Doctor
"No I didn't [kill anyone in the war]. No, I did not, no. But don't say it like
it's shameful!" ~Wilfred Mott
"I thought it'd be cleaner." ~Wilfred Mott about the TARDIS
"Oh my lord, she's a cactus." ~Wilfred Mott about an alien

"You've always got a trick up your sleeve. Nice little bit of the Doctor flim fl
am...sort of thing." ~Wilfred Mott
"Hee hee. I'm an astronaut!" ~Wilfred Mott
"Please don't die. You're the most wonderful man, and I don't want you to die."
~Wilfred Mott to The Doctor
"I am not leaving that man on his own. Not today." ~Wilfred Mott about The Docto
r
"Some things you never find out, and that's okay." ~Larry Nightingale
"This friend of yours...just before she left, did she punch you in the face? Sto
p bleeping me!" ~Donna Noble
"You fought her off with a water pistol? I bloody _love_ you!" ~Donna Noble
"[The Tenth Doctor] is too skinny for words - you give him a hug, you get a pape
rcut." ~Donna Noble
"You're the most anomalous bloke I've ever met." ~Donna Noble to The Doctor
"He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures...and runs
a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved." ~Donna Nobl
e
"You talk all the time, but you don't say anything." ~Donna Noble about The Doct
or's reluctance to talk about himself
"When I say, 'giant,' I don't mean 'big,' I mean 'flipping enormous'!" ~Donna No
ble
"Isn't traveling with you one big spoiler?" ~Donna Noble
"Why are we here?....It was all 'Let's hit the beach!', and then suddenly, we're
in a library. Why?" ~Donna Noble, discovering something all of The Doctor's Com
panions must eventually come to realise
"Well, you know - boyfriends. Sometimes you need the element of surprise." ~Donn
a Noble explaining where she learned to kick doors in
"I just have to run up to myself and have a good argument." ~Donna Noble
"The monsters and the Doctor... Seems you cannot have one without the other." ~R
einette Poisson
"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all: Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get
a house. Have a kid. And that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stra
nger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder...And so much better." ~
Elton Pope
"Oh my god... I'm the tin dog." ~Mickey Smith
"Surveillance... You ask me, that's just another way of saying 'Go sit at the ba
ck of the class with the safety scissors and glitter'." ~Mickey Smith
"Tea... We're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. That's very Briti
sh." ~Mickey Smith
"Nothin' wrong with a van. I once saved the universe with a _big_ yellow truck."
~Mickey Smith
"Does he still stroke bits of the TARDIS?" ~Sarah Jane Smith
"Some things are worth getting your heart broken for." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happ
iness or love. Whether it's a world or a relationship, everything has its time,
everything ends." ~Sarah Jane Smith
"Something mysterious in a school. That would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?" ~Sara
h Jane Smith
"Other Dave, stay with him. Pull him out when he's too stupid to live." ~Dr. Riv
er Song about The Doctor
"When you run with The Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard
you try, you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody
knows it like The Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds m
ight just turn dark if he ever for one moment accepts it." ~Dr. River Song
"For heaven's sake, that man. He just can't do it, can he. He just can't give in
." ~Dr. River Song
"I'm clever, and I'm listening, and don't patronize me because people have died
and I'm not happy." ~Sally Sparrow
"I know what kids can be like - right little sh...terrorists." ~Rose Tyler
"Who's going to hold his hand now?" ~Rose Tyler

"You are [special]. It just took The Doctor to show you that, simply by being wi
th him. He did the same to me. To everyone he touches." ~Rose Tyler to Donna Nob
le
"The wonders of space travel... The prettier it is, the more likely it is to kil
l you." ~Riley Vashtee
The Smith Era
"I think I'm having a craving. That's new, never had cravings before." ~The Doct
or
"Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans." ~The Doctor
"Course you're not [scared]. You're not scared of anything. Box falls out of the
sky, man falls out of the box, man eats fish custard, and look at you, just sit
tin' there." ~The Doctor to Amy Pond
I'm The Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt...and that is not how I'm introd
ucing myself. ~The Doctor
"Twenty minutes to save the world, and I've got a post office. And it's shut." ~
The Doctor
"Nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver." ~The Doctor
"I'm saving the world. I need a decent shirt." ~The Doctor
"Hello. I'm The Doctor. Basically...run." ~The Doctor
"Amy Pond, there is something you need to understand, and someday your life may
depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box." ~The Doctor
"Sorry, checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish." ~The Doct
or
I think a lot. It's hard to keep track. ~The Doctor
"This fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four g
oes." ~The Doctor
"Hold tight. We're bringing down the government." ~The Doctor
"Right, then. This isn't going to be big on dignity." ~The Doctor
"There's nothing broken, there's no sign of concussion, and, yes, you are covere
d in sick." ~The Doctor
"It's always a big day tomorrow - I've got a time machine; I skip the little one
s!" ~The Doctor
"Once every five years, everyone chooses to forget what they've learned. Democra
cy in action." ~Amy Pond
"Amazing, though, don't you think? The star whale. All that pain and misery...an
d loneliness. And it just made it kind." ~Amy Pond
"Did he just save the world from aliens and then bring all the aliens back again
?" ~Rory Williams

Through the millennia, the Time Lords of Gallifrey led a life of ordered calm, p
rotected against all threats from lesser civilisations by their great power. But
this was to change. Suddenly, and terribly, the Time Lords faced the most dange
rous crisis in their long history... - 4th Doctor
I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of w
hich human nature is merely a part. - 2nd Doctor
How dare you follow me into the TARDIS! The distractions... I really thought I w
as going to be alone again. - 1st Doctor
The illusion is always one of normality. - 5th Doctor
You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bulle
ts. - The Brigadier

During all the years I've been taking care of you, you in return have been takin
g care of me. You are still my grandchild and always will be. But now, you're a
woman too. I want you to belong somewhere, to have roots of your own. With David
you will be able to find those roots and live normally like any woman should do
. Believe me my dear, your future lies with David and not with a silly old buffe
r like me. One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there
must be no regrets,...
You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see
the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army
around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man, th
roughout the universe. We get that word from you, y'know. But if you carry on th
e way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma For
ests, the word doctor means "mighty warrior." How far you've come. And now they'
ve taken a child
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Good thing
s don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't neces
sarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. - 11th Doctor
I can't let you die without knowing you are loved. By so many and so much. And b
y no one more than me. - River Song
You've touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when you're ti
me came you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided the universe
is better off without you. But the universe doesn't agree. - River Song
As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves. - 1st Doctor
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no
means the most interesting. - 3rd Doctor

The Doctor
The Doctor is the main character of the show. Although bearing remarkably humanlike features, he is in fact one of the Time Lords
a mysterious race who have ma
stered time travel.
[edit]
The First Doctor
"Mm? What's that, my boy?"
The First Doctor's catch phrase
"Chesterfield!"
What the First Doctor calls Ian Chesterton.
"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension?
Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without fr
iends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day..."
The First Doctor, An Unearthly Child
"If you could touch the alien sand, and hear the cry of strange birds, and watc
h them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?"
The First Doctor, An Unearthly Child
"Fear makes companions of all of us, Miss Wright"
The First Doctor, An Unearthly Child
"I don't believe that man was made to be controlled by machines. Machines can m
ake laws but they can not preserve justice. Only human beings can do that."
The First Doctor, The Keys of Marinus
"You can't rewrite history. Not one line!"
The First Doctor, The Aztecs
"I made some cocoa and got engaged."

The First Doctor, The Aztecs

"Our lives are important - at least to us - and as we see, so we learn... Our d
estiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it."
The First Doctor, The Reign of Terror
"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be
no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and pro
ve to me that I am not mistaken in mine."
The First Doctor, The Dalek Invasion of Earth
"That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal
hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda
on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me."
The First Doctor gives a rather irritated introduction of the TARDIS to his new
companion Steven Taylor in The Time Meddler
"Your ideas are too narrow, too crippled. I am a citizen of the universe, and a
gentleman to boot!"
The First Doctor bristles when a policeman asks if he is a British citizen, The
Daleks' Master Plan
"And now they've all gone...none of them could understand. Not even my little S
usan, or Vicki...and as for Barbara and Chatterton ... Chesterton ... they were
all too impatient to get to their own time. Perhaps I should go home, back to my
own planet... But I can't..."
The First Doctor, The Massacre
"Emotions! Love, pride, hate, fear! Have you no emotions, sir?"
The First Doctor faces down a Cyberman, The Tenth Planet
"Ah, yes! Thank you. It's good. Keep warm."
The First Doctor's last words, The Tenth Planet
a dandy and a clown!"
"So you're my replacements
The First Doctor to the Second and Third, The Three Doctors (Third Doctor seria
l)
"I am the Doctor! The original, you might say!"
The First Doctor meets the Fifth Doctor's companions, The Five Doctors
"I suddenly realised what the old proverb meant. 'To lose is to win, and he who
wins shall lose'. It was all part of Rassilon's trap to find out who wanted imm
ortality and put him out of the way. He knew very well that immortality was a cu
rse. Not a blessing"
The First Doctor, The Five Doctors
"You did quite well. Quite well. Hm. It's reassuring to know that my future is
in safe hands."
The First Doctor to The Fifth Doctor in The Five Doctors
[edit]
The Second Doctor
"I should like a hat like that."
One of the Second Doctor's catchphrases
"When I say run, run. Run!"
Another of the Second Doctor's catchphrases
"It can do many things, Lesterson. But the thing it does most efficiently is ex
terminate human beings."
The Second Doctor on the Daleks in The Power of the Daleks
"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible thing
s. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."
The Second Doctor, The Moonbase
"I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of
which human nature is merely a part."
The Second Doctor, The Evil of the Daleks
"I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of
the time they... sleep in my mind and I forget. And so will you."
The Second Doctor reassuring Victoria, missing her father, with recollections o
f his own family, The Tomb of the Cybermen
"Well now I know you're mad, I just wanted to make certain."
The Second Doctor, The Tomb of the Cyberman

"The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal mi
nds. You might almost say they've had a complete metal breakdown."
The Second Doctor on disabling the Cybermats in The Tomb of the Cybermen
"People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come alon
g and break them."
The Second Doctor, The Enemy of the World
"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."
The Second Doctor, The Wheel in Space
"We're nowhere. It's as simple as that."
The Second Doctor, The Mind Robber
"Well...it is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved."
The Second Doctor, The War Games
"The Time Lords are an immensely civilised race. We can control our own environ
ment - we can live forever, barring accidents and we have the secret of space/ti
me travel"
The Second Doctor, The War Games
"This stuff, or whoever sent it, is cleverer than we are. Unfortunate, isn't it
."
The Second Doctor, The Three Doctors
"Well I must say goodbye, Brigadier. I really shouldn't be here at all. I'm not
exactly breaking the laws of time but I am bending them a little."
The Second Doctor, The Five Doctors
"Give a monkey control of its environment, and it will fill the world with bana
nas!"
The Second Doctor, The Two Doctors
"Do try and stay out of my way in future and in past there's a good fellow. The
time continuum should be big enough for the both of us. Just."
The Second Doctor, The Two Doctors
[edit]
The Third Doctor
"I've reversed the polarity of the neutron-flow."
The Third Doctor's catch phrase
"My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere, particularly not forthwith.
"
The Third Doctor, The Silurians
"Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you. That yo
u, Sir, are a NITWIT!"
The Third Doctor, Inferno
"So, free will is not an illusion after all."
The Third Doctor, Inferno
"What's wrong with being childish? I like being childish."
The Third Doctor, Terror of the Autons
"You know Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction i
n terms."
The Third Doctor, Terror of the Autons
"Obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth.
It seems that I'm some sort of galactic yo-yo!"
The Third Doctor, The Claws of Axos
"Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that
I've ever encountered."
The Third Doctor, Frontier in Space
"Courage isn't just a matter of not being afraid. It's being afraid and doing w
hat you have to do anyway."
The Third Doctor, Planet of the Daleks
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by
no means the most interesting."
The Third Doctor, The Time Warrior
"Inside each of those shells is a living, bubbling lump of hate."
The Third Doctor explains the nature of the Daleks to Sarah Jane Smith, Death t
o the Daleks

"A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life, there's..."
The Third Doctor's last words, Planet of the Spiders
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The Fourth Doctor
"Would you like a jelly baby?"
The Fourth Doctor, (various stories)
"You may be A doctor. But I'm THE Doctor. The definite article you might say."
The Fourth Doctor, Robot
"A new body is like a new house... takes a little bit of time to settle in. As
for the physiognomy? Well... nothing's perfect. Have to take the rough with the
smooth. Mind you... I think the nose is a definite improvement. As for the ears?
Well I'm not too sure. Tell me quite frankly... what do you say to the ears?"
The Fourth Doctor on his new appearance in Robot
"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."
The Fourth Doctor, Robot
"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idio
ts. They do exactly what you tell them at amazing speed...even if you order them
to kill you, so if you do happen to change your mind, it's very difficult to st
op them obeying the original order, but not impossible!"
The Fourth Doctor, Robot
"Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million y
ears 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, waiting to begin a
new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable."
The Fourth Doctor, The Ark in Space
"Are you coming or going... or going or coming?"
The Fourth Doctor, The Sontaran Experiment
"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favourite species."
The Fourth Doctor, The Ark in Space
"HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE"
The Fourth Doctor, "Revenge of the Cybermen"
"Listen, if somebody who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told yo
u that the child would grow up totally evil... To be a ruthless dictator who wou
ld destroy millions of lives. Could you then destroy that child?"
The Fourth Doctor, Genesis of the Daleks
"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 Fourth Doctor on the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks
"You've no home planet, no influence, nothing! You're just a pathetic bunch of
tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship!"
The Fourth Doctor on the Cybermen, Revenge of the Cybermen
"You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony some
times and wave a tentacle."
The Fourth Doctor, Terror of the Zygons
"You and I are scientists, professor. We purchase the right to experiment at th
e cost of total responsibility."
The Fourth Doctor, Planet of Evil
"Come on, Sarah. We've an appointment in London and we're already 30,000 years
late."
The Fourth Doctor, Planet of Evil
"I'm a Time Lord...I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity..."
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"I've got better things to do with my life then chasing around after the Brigad
ier!"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"Something's going on contrary to the laws of the universe. I must find out wha
t!"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"French Tickler? Never bends. Belonged to Marie Antoinette, charming lady. Lost

her head, poor thing..."

The Fourth Doctor attempting to open a lock, Pyramids of Mars
"Of course this would be a perfect headquarters of a paramilitary organization.
This room could easily be turned into a laboratory..."
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"I have to congratulate you Mr. Scarman. [...] On inventing the Radio Telescope
40 years early."
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"You see Mr. Scarman, I have the advantage of being slightly ahead of you. Some
times behind you, but normally ahead of you. ["I see"] No you don't, but it's ni
ce of you to try"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"Something interfering with time, Mr. Scarman. And time is my business."
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watc
h with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again.
"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"... gelignite is highly unstable... One good sneeze could set it off.."
The Fourth Doctor after a box of Gelignite is dropped into his hands, Pyramids
of Mars
"How do I look? ["It must have been a nasty accident"] Don't provoke me!"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"Serve you, Sutekh? Your name is abominated on every civilised world!"
The Fourth Doctor on Sutekh, Pyramids of Mars
"Yes... I think we should go. Don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, now
do we?"
The Fourth Doctor, Pyramids of Mars
"Do you think I don't know the difference between an internal fault and an exte
rnal influence! No, no, no, there's something going on here. Some dirty work the
y won't touch with their lily white hands!"
The Fourth Doctor, The Brain of Morbius
"If we don't find that pod before it germinates it will be the end of everythin
g - EVERYTHING you understand, even your pension!"
The Fourth Doctor, The Seeds of Doom
"You humans have got such limited, little minds. I don't know why I like you so
much."
The Fourth Doctor, The Masque of Mandragora
"Through the millennia, the Time Lords of Gallifrey led a life of ordered calm,
protected against all threats from lesser civilisations by their great power. B
ut this was to change. Suddenly, and terribly, the Time Lords faced the most dan
gerous crisis in their long history..."
The Fourth Doctor, The Deadly Assassin
"That's monstrous! Vaporisation without representation is against the constitut
ion!"
The Fourth Doctor borrows liberally from James Otis, The Deadly Assassin
"All right! I confess, I confess. I confess to your being a bigger idiot than I
thought."
The Fourth Doctor, being tortured in The Deadly Assassin
"Oh! Engin, I can feel my hair curling and that can mean either that it's going
to rain...or that I'm on to something."
The Fourth Doctor, The Deadly Assassin
"You'd delay an execution to pull the wings off a fly."
The Fourth Doctor to The Master in The Deadly Assassin
"Killing me isn't going to help you. It isn't going to do me much good either..
."
The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alt
er their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which
can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil

"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard."
The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil
"I never carry weapons. If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt yo
u. Nine times out of ten..."
The Fourth Doctor, The Robots of Death
"A simple 'No' would have sufficed..."
The Fourth Doctor after his Jelly Babies are rudely slapped from his hand, The
Robots of Death
"You're a classic example of the inverse relationship betweeen the size of the
mouth and the size of the brain."
The Fourth Doctor, The Robots of Death
"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained."
The Fourth Doctor, The Robots of Death
"I see, you're one of those boring maniacs who's going to gloat. Are you going
to tell me your plan for running the universe?"
The Fourth Doctor, The Robots of Death
"Oh, there's a mouse in the cupboard..."
The Fourth Doctor on Leela's squeaky voice, The Robots of Death
"Sleep is for tortoises!"
The Fourth Doctor, The Talons of Weng-Chiang
"The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunc
tion in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost i
n the fog."
The Fourth Doctor, Horror of Fang Rock
"Sometimes my brilliance astonishes even me."
The Fourth Doctor, The Invisible Enemy
"Good morning, ladies. Now, which one of you has the time scanner? Hmmm? You kn
ow, I don't think these cows know anything about the time scanner."
The Fourth Doctor, Image of the Fendahl
"Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one!"
The Fourth Doctor, The Invasion of Time
"If you call that being nearly killed, you haven't lived yet."
The Fourth Doctor, The Ribos Operation
"Look, I don't like to say "I told you so", but I told you so."
The Fourth Doctor, The Androids of Tara
"I've stopped the universe." (Beat) "Still, they'll never notice. Just imagine,
somewhere someone's just slipped on a banana skin and he'll be wondering foreve
r when he's going to hit the ground."
The Fourth Doctor, The Armageddon Factor
"Duggan, why is it that every time I start to talk to someone, you knock them u
nconscious?"
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"What a wonderful butler, he's so violent!"
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"You're a beautiful woman, probably."
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"Theodore Nikolai Kerensky, a scientist's job is to ask questions."
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"Leonardo? You remember the Mona Lisa? That dreadful woman with no eyebrows who
wouldn't sit still?"
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold h
ands."
The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"I suppose you could say the yoke's on him if you were the sort of person who s
aid that sort of thing which fortunately I'm not."
The Fourth Doctor, The Creature From the Pit
"Stupid expression, 'stands to reason.' Why isn't it 'lie down to reason?' Much
easier to reason lying down."

The Fourth Doctor, The Creature From the Pit

"Well, to be fair I had a couple of gadgets he probably didn't, such as a teasp
oon and an open mind."
The Fourth Doctor, explaining why he outdid Lady Adrasta's chief engineer The C
reature From the Pit
"Don't cross your bridges before they're hatched."
The Fourth Doctor, The Leisure Hive
"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."
The Fourth Doctor, Meglos
"Why can't people be nice to one another, just for a change? I mean, I'm an ali
en and you don't want to drag me into a swamp, do you... You do?!"
The Fourth Doctor, Full Circle
"Unless we work very closely together, we could be here until the crack of doom
. Oh, what's the use? Can I have one of your pickles - I had a rush lunch?"
The Fourth Doctor, Warriors' Gate
"Oh don't listen to me, I never do."
The Fourth Doctor, The Keeper of Traken
"Adric, if I knew everything that was going to happen, where would the fun be?"
The Fourth Doctor, The Keeper of Traken
"They say the atmosphere there was so full of goodness that evil just shrivelle
d up and died. Maybe that's why I never went there."
The Fourth Doctor, The Keeper of Traken
"The Master's already at work on Logopolis. I'm going to stop him if it's the l
ast thing I do."
The Fourth Doctor, Logopolis
"I've just dipped into the future. We must be prepared for the worst."
The Fourth Doctor, Logopolis
"It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for..."
The Fourth Doctor's final lines, as he dies from a fall off a radio-telescope i
n Logopolis and has to regenerate into the Fifth Doctor.
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The Fifth Doctor
"That's the trouble with regeneration. You never know what you're going to get.
"
The Fifth Doctor, Castrovalva
"This regeneration is going to be difficult and I shall need you all, every one
of you."
The Fifth Doctor, Castrovalva
"An apple a day keeps the... Ah, never mind."
The Fifth Doctor, Kinda
"There's always something to look at if you open your eyes!"
The Fifth Doctor, Kinda
"Why are Earth people so parochial?"
The Fifth Doctor, The Visitation
"I feel as though you've just killed an old friend."
The Fifth Doctor on the destruction of his Sonic Screwdriver, The Visitation
"Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?"
The Fifth Doctor, Black Orchid
"When was the last time you smelt a flower, watched a sunset, ate a well-prepar
ed meal. For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!"
The Fifth Doctor to the Cyber Leader, Earthshock
"If the freighter crashes into Earth with you on board, won't that make it very
difficult to carry out your task? After all, you would be very crumpled."
The Fifth Doctor to the Cyber Leader, Earthshock
"It's times like this I wish I still had my scarf."
The Fifth Doctor, Time-Flight
"The Master has finally defeated me."
The Fifth Doctor, Time-Flight
"You know how it is; you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it's

a hundred years later."

The Fifth Doctor, Arc of Infinity
"If we don't do something quickly the whole universe will be destroyed!"
The Fifth Doctor, Terminus
"Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast."
The Fifth Doctor, The Five Doctors
"I'm definitely not the man I was... thank goodness!"
The Fifth Doctor, The Five Doctors
"I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much."
The Fifth Doctor on Humans in Warriors of the Deep
"There should have been another way!"
The Fifth Doctor on the violence that resulted in the deaths of Humans, Siluria
ns, and Sea Devils in Warriors of the Deep
"I'm not helping you, officially. And if anyone happens to ask whether I made a
ny material difference to the welfare of this planet, you can tell them I came a
nd went like a summer cloud."
The Fifth Doctor, Frontios
"Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely tuned response to the s
ituation."
The Fifth Doctor, Frontios
"A risk shared is a risk doubled."
The Fifth Doctor, Frontios
"I'm not here as your prisoner, Davros, but your executioner."
The Fifth Doctor, Resurrection of the Daleks
"I tried keeping a diary once. Not chronological, of course. But the trouble wi
th time travel is, one never seems to find the time."
The Fifth Doctor, The Caves of Androzani
"Curiousity's always been my downfall."
The Fifth Doctor, The Caves of Androzani
"More of a tennis player than a cricketer."
The Fifth Doctor on Sharaz Jek in The Caves of Androzani
"I owe it to my friend to try because I got her into this, so you see I'm not g
oing to let you stop me now!"
The Fifth Doctor, Caves of Androzani
"Feels different this time..."
The Fifth Doctor prior to his regeneration, Caves of Androzani
"Adric?"
The Fifth Doctor's final words before regenerating in The Caves Of Androzani.
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The Sixth Doctor
"Change my dear. And it seems not a moment to soon..."
The Sixth Doctor having just regenerated in The Caves Of Androzani.
"Natural metamorphosis. A form of rebirth. I call it a renewal. And this time..
. positive triumph. I can sense it in every fibre of my being."
The Sixth Doctor on regeneration in The Twin Dilemma
"Ahhh... a noble brow. Clear gaze. At least it will be given a few hours sleep.
A firm mouth. A face beaming with a vast intelligence. My dear child what on Ea
rth are you complaining about? It's the most extraordinary improvement."
The Sixth Doctor on his new appearance in The Twin Dilemma
"My last incarnation... oh, I was never happy with that one. It had a sort of f
eckless "charm" which simply wasn't *me*!"
The Sixth Doctor on his last incarnations personality in The Twin Dilemma
"I'm a knight errant, not an errant fool."
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma
"And kindly refrain from addressing me as 'Doc', Perpugilliam!"
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma
"Well, look at me. I'm old, lacking in vigour, my mind's in turmoil. I no longe
r know if I'm coming, have gone, or even been. I'm falling to pieces. I no longe
r even have any clothes sense... Self-pity is all I have left."
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma

"In my time I have been threatened by experts. And I don't rate you very highly
at all."
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma
"I'm not only from another culture but another planet. I am in your terms an al
ien."
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma
"I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not."
The Sixth Doctor, The Twin Dilemma
"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."
The Sixth Doctor, Attack of the Cybermen
"The TARDIS, when working properly, is capable of many amazing things. Not unli
ke myself."
The Sixth Doctor, Attack of the Cybermen
"Unstable? Unstable? Unstable?! This is me, Peri! Right now I am as stable as y
ou will ever see me! You must forget how I used to be. I'm a Time Lord. A man of
science, temperament and passion*!"
The Sixth Doctor, Attack of the Cybermen
"Wait, watch and learn."
The Sixth Doctor, Attack of the Cybermen
"It's all right for you, Peri. You've only got one life. You'll age here in the
TARDIS and then die. But me, I shall go on regenerating until all my lives are
spent."
The Sixth Doctor, Vengeance on Varos
"Forgive me if I don't join you."
The Sixth Doctor to two men after they fell into an acid bath, Vengeance on Var
os
"I never said I was perfect!"
The Sixth Doctor, Vengeance on Varos
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
The Sixth Doctor, The Two Doctors
"Mainly decaying food... and corpses. That is the smell of death, Peri; ancient
must, heavy in the air... fruit-soft flesh peeling from white bones... the unho
ly, unburiable smell of Armageddon. Nothing quite so evocative as one's sense of
smell, is there?"
The Sixth Doctor, The Two Doctors
"Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.
"
The Sixth Doctor, The Two Doctors
"I'm not dead yet!"
The Sixth Doctor after supposedly being killed by a statue of himself, Revelatio
n of the Daleks
"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into oth
er patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."
The Sixth Doctor, Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet
"This is a situation that requires tact and finesse. Fortunately, I am blessed
with both."
The Sixth Doctor, The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
"Unless we are prepared to sacrifice our lives for the good of all, then evil a
nd anarchy will spread like the plague."
The Sixth Doctor, Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
"In all my travelling throughout the universe I have battled against evil, agai
nst power mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation:
decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power mad conspirators, Daleks, So
ntarans... Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million ye
ars of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt."
The Sixth Doctor, Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
"Are you threatening me? Listen, I've been threatened by experts, you know. Cyb
ermen, Ice Warriors, Daleks... BBC producers..."
The Sixth Doctor, The Shape Shifter, Doctor Who Magazine #88
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The Seventh Doctor

"I'm the Doctor, this is my friend Ace-"
The Seventh Doctor always says but seems to be interrupted or arrested every ti
me"That was a nice nap, now down to business!"
The Seventh Doctor's first words in Time and the Rani
"Perhaps this is my new persona - sulky, bad-tempered."
The Seventh Doctor on his personality in Time and the Rani
"You don't understand regeneration, Mel. It's a lottery, and I've drawn the sho
rt plank."
The Seventh Doctor on regeneration in Time and the Rani
"Time and Tide melts the snowman."
The Seventh Doctor farewelling the Lacursian people, Time and the Rani
"Time for a quick adventure, then back for tea."
The Seventh Doctor, Dragonfire
"Yes, that's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gon
e. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all de
pends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time."
The Seventh Doctor, Dragonfire
"Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a ne
at pattern. Think about the homeless traveller in his old police box, his days l
ike crazy paving."
The Seventh Doctor, Dragonfire
"There are three rules. One: I'm in charge. Two: I'm not the Professor. I'm the
Doctor. And the third... Well I'll think of the third by the time we get back t
o Perivale."
The Seventh Doctor, Dragonfire
"Ace, hand me some of that Nitro-9 you're not carrying."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Oi! Dalek! It's me, the Doctor. What's the matter, don't you recognise your mo
rtal enemy?"
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by
it's ingenuity when trying to destroy itself."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"I think I might have miscalculated."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Typical human, you can always count on them to mess things up."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Weapons. Always useless in the end."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Dalek! You have been defeated. Surrender! You have failed. Your forces are des
troyed, your home planet a burnt cinder circling a dead sun. Even Davros, your c
reator, is dead! You have no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcements, no hope
, no rescue! You're trapped, a trillion miles and a thousand years from a disint
egrated home. I have defeated you. You no longer serve any purpose."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Ashes to ashes... Dust to dust."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Time will tell... It always does."
The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"I can hear the sound of empires toppling."
The Seventh Doctor, The Happiness Patrol
"This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the sea
s on this sad planet."
The Seventh Doctor, Silver Nemesis
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way."
The Seventh Doctor, The Greatest Show In The Galaxy

"Among all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clappe
d shut as the military mind."
The Seventh Doctor, Battlefield
"My heresies appall you, my theories outrage you, I never answer letters, and y
ou don't like my tie!"
The Seventh Doctor, Ghost Light
"I loathe bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls."
The Seventh Doctor, Ghost Light
"Who was it said Earthmen never invite their ancestors round to dinner?"
The Seventh Doctor, Ghost Light
"File under "Imagination, comma, lack of."
The Seventh Doctor, Ghost Light
"Evil, evil since the dawn of time."
The Seventh Doctor, The Curse of Fenric
"He doesn't have to outrun the lion, only his friend. Then the lion catches up
with his friend and eats him. The strong survive, the weak are killed: the law o
f the jungle! ... Yes, very clever, if you don't mind losing your friend. But wh
at happens when the next lion turns up? I think you'd better get your running sh
oes on, gentlemen."
The Seventh Doctor contemplates in Survival
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and
the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there
's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. C
ome on, Ace. We've got work to do."
The Seventh Doctor puts a lump in the throats of five million viewers with his
parting line in Survival (the final lines of the original series)
"Timing malfunction. The Master! He's out there. I've got to stop him."
The Seventh Doctor's last words before 'dying' from an unnecessary medical proc
edure performed on him by human doctor's unaware of his alien physiology in Doct
or Who
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The Eighth Doctor
"It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy, the Master, was finally put on t
rial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and senten
ce passed. Then he made his last, and I thought somewhat curious, request. He de
manded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to ou
r home planet - Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"The Time Lord has 13 lives and the Master had used all of his. But rules never
meant much to him, so I stowed his remains safely for the voyage back. Because
even in death, I couldn't trust him. In all my travels through space and time, a
nd nearing the end of my seventh life, I was finally beginning to realise that y
ou could never be too careful."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't
make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"This is when I wish I had my sonic screwdriver."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"[Chuckles] I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"The world's about to be destroyed, and I'm stuck in a traffic jam!"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"Oh no, not again!"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"...The sky above us was dancing with lights! Purple, green, brilliant yellow!!
"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"These shoes! They fit perfectly!"

The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who

"Now, will you kindly stand aside before I shoot myself?"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"Low tech?! Grace, this is a Type 40 TARDIS, able to take you to any planet in
the universe and to any date in that planet's existence! Temporal physics."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"This is no time to be playing doctors and nurses..."
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"Are you any good at setting alarm clocks?"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"Look over there! On the otherside of your galaxy, that's home. 250 million lig
ht years away. That's a good 10 minutes in this old thing."
The Eighth Doctor on Gallifrey in Doctor Who
"How can you miss me? I'm the guy with two hearts, remember?"
The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
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The Ninth Doctor
(takes Rose's hand))
"Run!"
The introduction of the Ninth Doctor, Rose
"Fantastic!"
The Ninth Doctor's catch phrase
"Nice to meet you Rose. (excitedly) Run for your life!"
The department store after the auton's attack, Rose
(Picks up Heat magazine and flicks through)
"That won't last; he's gay and she's an alien"
The Ninth Doctor, Rose
(Looks in the mirror)
"Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears"
The Ninth Doctor on his new appearance, Rose
"D'you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you'
re a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can
't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can fee
l it -- the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thou
sand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty-seven
thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and
me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... [beat] T
hat's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home."
The Ninth Doctor tells Rose who he is, Rose
"That's not true! I was there! I fought in the War! I couldn't save your world!
I couldn't save any of them!"
The Ninth Doctor's first mention of the Time War, Rose
"You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to ge
t killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take t
ime to imagine the impossible. That maybe you survive. This is the year Five bil
lion... and today is, hold on... This is the day the sun expands. (Grins) Welcom
e to the end of the world."
The Ninth Doctor to Rose, The End of the World
"Everything has its time and everything dies."
The Ninth Doctor, The End of the World
"You think it'll last forever. The people, and cars, and concrete. But it won't
. Then one day it's all gone. Even the sky."
The Ninth Doctor to Rose, The End of the World
"There was a war. And we lost. I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords.
I'm left travelling on my own cause there's no one else."
The Ninth Doctor, The End of the World
"I saw the Fall of Troy, World War Five... I pushed boxes into Boston Harbor at
the Boston Tea Party. Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... in Cardiff!"
The Ninth Doctor, The Unquiet Dead
"Of course I remember your name, wasn't it Ricky?"

The Ninth Doctor being sarcastic to Mickey, Aliens Of London.

"D'you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?"
The Ninth Doctor to disguised Slitheen, Aliens Of London.
"Narrows it down!"
The Ninth Doctor, World War Three
"Mickey the idiot, the world is in your hands-"
The Ninth Doctor to himself, World War III.
"Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you, the Great Space Dustbin. How
does it feel?"
The Ninth Doctor in response to a helpless Dalek as it rants at him, Dalek
"I watched it happen. I made it happen!"
The Ninth Doctor to "the last Dalek", on the destruction of the Daleks, Dalek
"We're not the same! I'm not the... No, wait! Maybe we are! ... Yeah, right! Ok
ay. You've got a point! 'Cos I know what to do. I know what should happen. I kno
w what you deserve... <raises eyebrows and grins> Exterminate!"
The Ninth Doctor to "the last Dalek", Dalek
"You just want to drag the stars down underground underneath tons of sand and d
irt and label them! You're about as far from the stars as you can get!"
The Ninth Doctor to Van Statten, Dalek
"You're gonna get rusty"
The Ninth Doctor to the Dalek via intercom, Dalek
Digging through a bin of alien weapons:
"Broken. Broken. Hair dryer."
The Ninth Doctor, Dalek
Pulls big gun out of bin of alien weapons
"Oh yes! Lock and load."
The Ninth Doctor, Dalek
"Little bit of home. Better than nothing."
The Ninth Doctor as he touches the TARDIS, Dalek
"I'm the only one left... I win. Fancy that."
The Ninth Doctor, Dalek
"I'd know (touches his head) in here. Feels like there's no-one"
The Ninth Doctor about his people, Dalek
"The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read th
e guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs,
get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers... or is that just me?
"
The Ninth Doctor to Adam, The Long Game
(To Rose) "You and your boyfriends!"
Adam reveals to the Editor about the Ninth Doctor, The Long Game
"The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight."
The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day
"I did it again -- I picked another stupid ape. I should have known. It's not a
bout showing you the universe. It never is. It's about the universe doing someth
ing for you."
The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day
"Rose, my whole planet died. My family, my people. Do you think it never occure
d to me to go back and save them?"
The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day
"Now, Rose... You are not going to bring about the end of the world, are you?"
The Ninth Doctor to baby Rose, Father's Day
"Don't touch the baby!"
The Ninth Doctor to Rose, Father's Day.
"Who said you're not important? I've travelled to all sorts of places, done thi
ngs you couldn't even imagine. But you two..! Street corner, two in the morning,
getting a taxi home. I've never had a life like that."
The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day
"It's the TARDIS key! It's telling me it's still connected!"
The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day
"Get behind me! I'm the oldest thing in here!"

The Ninth Doctor, Father's Day

"One day, just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet somebody who gets the whole "d
on't wander off" thing."
The Ninth Doctor, The Empty Child
"And I'm looking for a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, mind you, I didn
't just wake up this morning with a craving."
The Ninth Doctor, The Empty Child
"That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunder
standings - all those Red Alerts, all that dancing."
The Ninth Doctor on Red Alerts, The Empty Child
"Go to your room. Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'
m very, very cross! Go to your room! ... I'm really glad that worked. Those woul
d have been terrible last words."
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good."
The Ninth Doctor in The Doctor Dances
"Funny little human brains. How do you get around in them?"
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"Been around 900 years, me. I think you can assume at some point I've ... dance
d."
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fres
h."
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once! Everybody lives!!"
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"Close the door will you? Your ship's about to blow up: there's gonna be a draf
t."
The Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"It's not just any old power source -- it's the TARDIS! My TARDIS: the best shi
p in the universe." ... "The heart of the TARDIS... This ship's alive. You've op
ened its soul."
The Ninth Doctor, Boom Town
"Is that it? [beat] Useless! Nil Points!"
The Ninth Doctor, after the Dalek's death rays bounce off the TARDIS' force fie
ld, The Parting of the Ways. (see also: Eurovision song contest, "Zero Points, N
il Points", the most terrible fate for a song.)
"You know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The
Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right dow
n deep in your DNA there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it ju
st burn when you face me?"
The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"I think you're forgetting something: I'm the Doctor and if there's one thing I
can do, it's talk. I've got 5 billion languages and you haven't got one way to
stop me. So if anyone's gonna shut up... IT'S YOU!"
The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"Now, with a brain as big as mine, this should take three days"
The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"I'm dead -- or about to die any second, with no chance of escape. And that's o
kay. Hope it's a good death."
The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"I think you need a Doctor."
The Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"And before I go, Rose -- before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantas
tic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I."
The Ninth Doctor's last words before regenerating, The Parting of the Ways
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The Tenth Doctor
"Hello! Oka- [gulp, nauseated expression] New teeth. That's weird. So where was
I? Oh, that's right -- Barcelona!"

The Tenth Doctor's first words, after regenerating from the Ninth, in The Parti
ng of the Ways
"Hair! I'm not bald! Ooh... big hair. Sideburns - I've got sideburns! Or really
bad skin... Little bit thinner; that's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it.
... I... have got a mole. I can feel it. Between my shoulderblades, there's a m
ole. It's all right! Love the mole! Go on then. Tell me... what do you think?"
The Tenth Doctor, just after regenerating, the Children in Need special.
"You just can't get the staff."
The Tenth Doctor after snapping the Sycorax Leader's staff in half, The Christm
as Invasion
"From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking, step into the sun, there i
s more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than... no, hold on. Sorry, that
's The Lion King. But, the point still stands... leave them alone!"
The Doctor extolling the virtues of humanity, The Christmas Invasion
"Not bad for a man in his jim-jams, very Arthur Dent... now there was a nice man
."
The Doctor as he and Rose walk away from the defeated Sycorax leader, The Chris
tmas Invasion
"No second chances. I'm that sort of a man."
The Doctor after despatching the Sycorax leader with a satsuma, The Christmas I
nvasion
"By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of T
ime. When you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell
when you talk of the Earth, then
them of its riches, its people, its potential
make sure you tell them this. It. Is. Defended!"
The Doctor addressing the Sycorax, The Christmas Invasion
"Trouble's just the bits in between! It's all waiting out there, Jackie. And it
's all brand new to me. All those planets, creatures, and horizons...I haven't s
een them yet. Not with these eyes. And it is going to be...fantastic!"
The Tenth Doctor, The Christmas Invasion
"You've been watching my adventures, and I've been watching some of yours... (Lo
oks at Camera with a funny expression) Including you, mate. (Pause) Where do you
get the energy?."
The Doctor to the viewer(s) in the Interactive adventure, Attack of the Graske
"All the power of the sonic is yours now, so don't let the cat sit on it, 'cos y
ou really wouldn't want that..."
The Doctor after linking the sonic screwdriver to the viewer('s) remote in the
Interactive adventure, Attack of the Graske
"There's a chance that if you turn to ITV tonight the galaxy might implode"
The Doctor, Attack of the Graske
"Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New york, which makes it New New New New
New New...New New New New New New...New New New York." The Tenth Doctor in New E
arth.
"I m the Doctor. And if you don t like it, if you want to take it to a higher author
ity, there isn t one. It stops with me."
The Doctor to Novice Hame in New Earth
"I'm being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm."
The Doctor to Novice Hame in New Earth
"A werewolf?"
The Doctor after being told that a man who becomes an animal is living in the Sc
ottish highlands, Tooth and Claw
"Oh, aren't you beautiful!"
The Doctors response to his first encounter with the Werewolf, Tooth and Claw
"You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's more of a lupine wavelength haem
ovariform ..."
The Doctor explains to Queen Victoria, Tooth and Claw
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty, you'
ll have to leg it out of a window."
The Doctor tries to find an escape route for Queen Victoria, Tooth and Claw
"Your Majesty, as a doctor, I suggest a vigorous jog; good for the health!"

The Doctor tells Queen Victoria to run, Tooth & Claw

"So... Physics! Physics, ey? Physics! Phyyyysics! Physics, Physics, Physics, Phy
sics, Physics Physics, Physics, Physics, Physics... I hope you're getting all th
is down!"
The Doctor teaching physics in, School Reunion
"Correctamundo! Which is a word I've never used before, and hopefully never will
again..."
The Doctor teaching physics, School Reunion
"They're Krillitanes. That's bad. Imagine how bad things could possibly get, and
then add a suitcase full of bad."
The Doctor recognises the evil creatures in School Reunion
"Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what
, I'll just have a quick scan... in case of anything dangerous."
The Doctor, when asked by Rose if there was anyone on board the spaceship Madame
de Pompadour, The Girl In The Fireplace
"Now let's think. If you were a thing that ticks and you were hiding in someones
bedroom, first thing you do, break the clock. 'Cause no-one notices the sound o
f one clock ticking but two... you might just start to wonder if you're really a
lone..."
The Doctor, about to discover the clockwork android, The Girl In The Fireplace
"I'm the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!"
The Doctor after kissing King Louis' most famous mistress, The Girl in the Firep
lace
"Have you met the French? My... God they know how to party!
The Doctor, stumbling in seemingly drunk, The Girl In The Fireplace
"You're Mr Thick Thick Thickety Thickface, from Thicktown, Thickania! And so's y
our dad!"
The Doctor to the Clockwork droids, The Girl in the Fireplace
"Here's to the slow path."
The Doctor to Reinette, A Girl In The Fireplace
"We Surrender! We volunteer for the upgrade programme!"
The Doctor, Rise Of The Cybermen
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Companions
[edit]
of the First Doctor
"Oh grandfather!"
Susan's catchphrase.
"Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box standing in a j
unkyard... it can move anywhere in time and space?"
Ian Chesterton, An Unearthly Child (first episode of the original series)
"I know that travel through the fourth dimension is a scientific miracle I didn
't expect to find solved in a junkyard."
Ian Chesterton, An Unearthly Child
"We'd better keep an eye on him. He seems to have a knack of getting himself in
to trouble."
Ian Chesterton on The Doctor in The Daleks
"Why have I got to keep pretending I'm a boy? Why can't I be a girl again?"
Vicki, The Crusade
After the Doctor says there will be visitors (Cybermen) from the new planet tha
t has appeared: "What visitors? Father Christmas?" Ben in The Tenth Planet.
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of the Second Doctor
"Oh no pied piper! Please don't take me-"
Jamie McCrimmon delerious spotting a Cyberman in The Moonbase.
"Ooh it's a big beastie!"
Jamie McCrimmon spotting an aeroplane at Heathrow Airport in The Faceless Ones
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of the Third Doctor

"Nonsense, what you need, Doctor, is someone to pass you your test tubes, and t
o tell you how brilliant you are."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Terror of the Autons
"Jenkins...chap with wings there, five rounds, rapid!"
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Damons
"I never thought I'd have to fire in anger at a dratted caterpillar."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on the giant maggots, The Green Death
"Wonderful chap - both of him."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on the Second and Third Doctors at the end of The
Three Doctors
"Wonderful chaps - all of you."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to the First, Second, Third and Fifth Doctors at t
he end of The Five Doctors
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of the Fourth Doctor
"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bul
lets."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Robot
"Oh, So pedantic at a time like this!"
Sarah Jane Smith, Pyramids of Mars
"That can't be... I'm from 1980..."
Sarah Jane Smith, [[Pyramids of Mars]]
"Danger Master! Danger!"
K-9, (Various adventures)
"It is stimulating to communicate for once with something other than a limited
and unpredictable organic intelligence."
K-9, The Armageddon Factor
"Hostiles repulsed. Most satisfactory."
K-9, The Armageddon Factor
"Such actions warrant immediate death, which I shall execute."
K-9, The Armageddon Factor
"Essential restored to vertical position. Alternative is your obliteration."
K-9, The Armageddon Factor
"Reconfigured in aggression mode, Master."
K-9, State of Decay
"Well, if one has godlike powers, one ought to be able to use them, oughtn't on
e?"
Romana I, The Armageddon Factor
"Well, there's certainly intelligent life at the end of this lot."
Tegan Jovanka, first entering the TARDIS in Logopolis
[edit]
of the Fifth Doctor
"We're perfectly harmless unfortunately."
Tegan Jovanka after being searched by a Pharos Project Security Guard in Castro
valva
"You know, since his regeneration I think he's become decidedly immature."
A sulky Adric on the 5th Doctor after an argument, Earthshock
"I'm just a mouth on legs."
Tegan Jovanka, Earthshock
"Splendid fellows - all of you."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to the Doctors at the end of The Five Doctors (see
Three Doctors quote above)
[edit]
of the Sixth Doctor
"Circular logic will only make you dizzy, Doctor."
Peri, The Two Doctors
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of the Seventh Doctor

"Oh professor-"
Ace's catchphrase.
"You're not going in on the spoons again, are you?"
Ace regarding the invitation to compete at the psychic circus.
[edit]
of the Eighth Doctor
"Great, I finally meet the right guy and he's from another planet!"
Grace Holloway, Doctor Who
[edit]
of the Ninth Doctor
"Oh, you men are all the same. Give a man a plastic hand."
Rose upon noticing the Doctor being throttled by the Nestene-influenced plastic
arm, Rose.
"If you're an alien how comes you sound like you're from the north?"
Rose to the Ninth Doctor in Rose.
"What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?"
Rose to the Ninth Doctor, On the Doctor's hatred for "the last Dalek", Dalek
"Could you switch off your cell phone? No, really, it interferes with my instru
ments."
Jack Harkness to Rose while she is caught in his tractor beam, The Empty Child.
"Saw your ship. Love the retro look by the way -- nice panels."
Jack Harkness complimenting the Doctor's choice of TARDIS-design, The Empty Chi
ld
"When he gets stressed, he likes to insult species."
Rose to Jack Harkness, while the Doctor is talking, The Doctor Dances.
"Who has a sonic screwdriver? Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'woo, this
could be a little more sonic'?"
Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"Well I've got a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves -- well,
the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?"
Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances.
"She was hanging from a barrage balloon and I had an invisible spaceship. I nev
er stood a chance."
Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"Last time I was going to be executed, I ordered two hyper-vodkas. Woke up in b
ed with both my executioners. They stayed in touch, you can't say that about mos
t executioners."
Jack Harkness facing death, The Doctor Dances
"Relax, he's a 51st century guy; he's just a bit more flexible when it comes to
dancing."
The Doctor on Jack "distracting" a guard instead of Rose The Doctor Dances
"Probably wondering what four people were doing in a small box."
Jack Harkness, Boom Town
"See you in hell."
Jack Harkness, Boom Town and Parting of the Ways
"I thought that was just a legend."
Jack Harkness about the Time War in Parting of the Ways
"I want you safe... My Doctor. Protected from the false god."
Rose to the Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
"You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every atom of your existe
nce, and I divide them."
Rose to the Emperor of the Daleks, The Parting of the Ways
"I can see everything. All that is... all that was... all that ever could be."
Rose to the Ninth Doctor, The Parting of the Ways
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of the Tenth Doctor
"Somebody's got to be the Doctor."
Rose, preparing to bluff the Sycorax, The Christmas Invasion

Rose: "Right! So you're talking out of your ar...!"

Cassandra: "Ask not!"
Rose to Lady Cassandra, New Earth
"Where the hell have you been?"
Rose to the Doctor as the werewolf breaks free of the cage, Tooth & Claw.
Sarah: "I used to travel with the Doctor."
Rose: "Funny, he's never mentioned you."
Sarah Jane Smith and Rose meet, School Reunion.
Mickey: (to the Doctor) "The missus and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nig
htmare."
Mickey Smith, School Reunion
"I'm their technical support! I'm their man in the van! I'm... Oh my God! I'm th
e tin dog!"
Mickey to Sarah Jane, School Reunion.
"Oh, look what the cat dragged in! The Oncoming Storm!"
Rose, disgusted at the seemingly drunk Doctor, The Girl In The Fireplace
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Enemies
[edit]
Daleks
"Exterminate!" (pronounced somewhat like "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!")
oft-repeated cry of the Daleks.
"I obey!" (I o-bey)
"With static power the Daleks will be twice as...(undertone) useful..."
From Power of the Daleks
"Daleks conquer and destroy! Daleks conquer and destroy!"
From The Power of the Daleks
"Daleks are better- different than human beings."
From The Power of the Daleks
"We shall triumph, you will obey, YOU WILL OBEY!"
Threatening the doctor in Evil of the Daleks
"This is your Emperor speaking. There is danger here. Do not fight in here. DO N
OT FIGHT IN HERE! Obey me! OBEY! YOU WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED! OBEY!"
The Emperor Dalek trying to restore order during the Dalek civil war. Evil of t
he Daleks
"Without knowing, you have shown the Daleks what their own strength is. "
The Emperor Dalek taunts the Doctor, The Evil of the Daleks
"You will take the Dalek Factor. You will spread it to the entire history of Ear
th!"
The Emperor Dalek gives the Doctor an ultimatium, The Evil of the Daleks
"Davros must be exterminated! Nothing must interfere with the true destiny of th
e Daleks! You will be exterminated! Exterminated! EXTERMINATED!"
Resurrection of the Daleks
"Stay where you are! Do not move!"
various stories
"Help! My vision is impaired! I cannot see!"
Various stories
"Rebels of London, this is your last offer - our final warning. Leave your hidin
g places. Show yourselves in the open streets. You will be fed and watered. Work
is needed from you... but the Daleks offer you life. Rebel against us and the D
aleks will destroy London completely. You will all die. The males, the females,
the descendants. Rebels of London, come out of your hiding places."
The Dalek ultimanium to London's human rebels, The Dalek Invasion of Earth
"There is only one kind of life that matters- Dalek life!"
From The Evil of the Daleks (Second Doctor serial)
"We are entombed, but we live on. This is only the beginning. We will prepare.
We will grow stronger. When the time is right we will emerge and take our rightf
ul place as THE SUPREME POWER OF THE UNIVERSE!"
From the end of Genesis of the Daleks (Fourth Doctor serial)
"You are the Doctor! (pronounced "DOK-TOR!") You are the enemy of the Daleks! Yo

u will be exterminated! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Dalek, Remembrance of the Daleks (Seventh Doctor serial)
"The Daleks survive in me!"
"The last Dalek" after restoring itself to full power, Dalek (Ninth Doctor epis
ode)
"Elevate!" (pronounced "E-LE-VATE!")
"The last Dalek" as it begins to hover
"What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?"
"The last Dalek"
"Alert! ALERT! We are detected!"
"Bad Wolf"
"It is the Doctor! He has located us!"
Bad Wolf
"What is the meaning of this negative?"
Bad Wolf
"They survived through me!"
Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the Ways (Ninth Doctor episode), in response to
the Doctor's question "How did you survive the Time War?"
"You would destroy Daleks and humans together. If I am god, the creator of all t
hings, then what does that make you, Doctor?"
Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the Ways (Ninth Doctor episode)
"I am the god of all Daleks"
"Worship him! Worship him!"
The Dalek emperor and Daleks, The Parting of the Ways (Ninth Doctor episode)
"Do not blaspheme!"
Daleks in The Parting of the Ways
"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor! The Great Exterminator!"
The Dalek Emperor, Parting of the Ways
"I will not die! I cannot die!"
The Dalek Emperor, just prior to being killed, Parting of the Ways
"For the last time, I am your creator! You must, you will obey me!"
"We obey no-one! We are the superior beings! EXTERMINATE!"
the Daleks turn on Davros, from Genesis of the Daleks
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The Master
"I am usually refered to as the Master!"
The Master (Terror of the Autons)
"I only need two things. Your submission and your obedience to MY WILL!"
The Master, The Damons (Third Doctor serial)
"You could take the usual precautions...sticky tape on the windows, that sort o
f thing."
The Master, providing helpful suggestions on how to survive a nuclear blast, Th
e Claws of Axos (Third Doctor serial)
"Thank you, Miss Grant -- we'll let you know!"
The Master, having seen through a bluff, Frontier in Space (Third Doctor serial
)
"You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive. Why
else should I endure this pain?"
The Master, The Deadly Assassin (Fourth Doctor serial)
"A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about."
The Master, The Five Doctors (Fifth Doctor serial)
"I am the Master- And you shall obey me."
The Kamelion-Master to Peri from Planet Of Fire, a Fifth Doctor serial.
"You are indeed a worthy opponent, Doctor. It's what gives your destruction its
. . . piquancy."
The Master, The Mark of the Rani (Sixth Doctor serial)
"I am the Master and you will obey me."
The Master 'catchphase', Several stories
"Life is wasted on the living!"
The Master, Doctor Who (Eighth Doctor TV movie)

[edit]
Others
"You have the mouth of a prattling jackanapes but your eyes tell a different st
ory."
Sharaz Jek, The Caves of Androzani (Fifth Doctor serial)
"I warn you Doctor, to toy with me is most unwise."
Josiah, Ghost Light (Seventh Doctor serial)
"We play the contest again...Time Lord."
Fenric, The Curse of Fenric (Seventh Doctor serial)
"Ahhh . . . the sound of dying. When it comes to death, quantity is so much mor
e satisfying than quality."
Fenric, The Curse of Fenric (Seventh Doctor serial)
"Moisturise me!"
The Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Delta 17, The End of the World
"Victory... should be naked!"
The Slitheen, World War Three (Ninth Doctor serial)
"It may interest you to know that this isn't actually the Fourth Great and Boun
tiful Human Empire. It's a place where humans happen to live... Sorry... Are all
owed to live by kind permission of my cilent."
The Editor, The Long Game
"But the chips allow me to see inside their heads find the smallest doubt and c
rush it!"
The Editor, The Long Game
"If it's all the same to you sir I think I'll resign, bye."
The Editor, The Long Game
"Are you my mummy?"
The Empty Child and its victims, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances (Ninth D
octor serials)
"London doesn't care. The entire west coast could fall into the sea and they wo
uldn't notice... Oh! I sound like a Welshman... God help me, I've gone native."
Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen (a.k.a. Margaret Blaine), Boom Town (Ninth
Doctor serial)
"Stand back boys... Surf's up!"
Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen (a.k.a. Margaret Blaine), Boom Town (Ninth
Doctor serial)
"We will survive."
The Cyber Controller's catchphrase, Tomb of the Cybermen
"You belong to us. You shall be like us."
Cyber Controller, Tomb of the Cybermen
"Excellent."
Popular phase of the Cyberleader from Earthshock to Silver Nemesis
"The sargeant and I are both helping the plant world. In different ways, of cou
rse."
Harrison Chase, The Seeds of Doom (Fourth Doctor serial)
"By the Great Parrot of Hades!!"
The Pirate Captain, The Pirate Planet (Fourth Doctor serial)
"I shall crush it like a rotten egg."
The Marshal, The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Doctor serial)
"I too serve a Guardian. A Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one who
sent you. The Black Guardian, he who walks in darkness! And you are in the Valle
y of the Shadow!"
The Shadow, The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Doctor serial)
"Once the Key is ours we shall set not two small planets, but the two halves of
the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ear
s! Unlike others, it is not power we seek, but destruction that we glory in."
The Shadow, The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Doctor serial)
(A jukebox is wheeled out before Cassandra)
"And here, another rarity. According to the archives, this was called an i-Pod.
It stores classical music from humanity's greatest composers. Play on!"
(Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" plays on the jukebox)

Cassandra, The End of the World (Ninth Doctor serial)

"Ignore the shooty dog thing."
Mr Finch, while K9 is fighting the Krillitanes, School Reunion (Tenth Doctor se
rial)
"Do try the chips."
Mr Finch to Sarah Jane Smith, School Reunion (Tenth Doctor serial)
"You are inferior, man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you shall perish under m
aximum deletion. Delete, delete, DELETE!"
A Cyberman, Rise of the Cybermen (Tenth Doctor serial)
"We are human.2"
A Cyberman, Rise of the Cybermen (Tenth Doctor serial)
"Skin of metal and a body that will never age: How I envy it!"
John Lumic, Rise of the Cybermen (Tenth Doctor serial)
Cyberman: "This man worked with Cybus Industries to create our species. He will
be rewarded by force. Take them to Cyber Control."
The Cyberman created from Jackie Tyler, Age of Steel (Tenth Doctor serial)
"Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then we'll begin."
The Wire, The Idiot's Lantern
"Goodnight, children everywhere!"
The Wire after eating Rose's soul, The Idiot's Lantern
"I'm The Wire. And I will gobble you up, pretty boy. Every...last...morsel."
The Wire to Tommy Connolly, The Idiot's Lantern
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Other characters
"There is no indignity in being afraid to die, but there is a terrible shame in
being afraid to live."
Thal leader, The Daleks (First Doctor Serial)
"These creatures, these Earth-people, are loud and ugly! Why could we not have
left them in the desert or in the mountains?"
The Second Elder, The Sensorites (First Doctor serial)
"There's something new in you yet something older than the sky"
Princess Joanna about the Doctor, The Crusade (First Doctor serial)
"Please do not throw hands at me"
D84, being attacked with robot parts, The Robots of Death (Fourth Doctor serial
)
"There is only one ship left, Sir. Your escape- (Pause) Your command module, si
r."
Atrian technician, to the Marshal, The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Doctor serial)
"I'd stay and watch you die, but I haven't the time."
Princess Astra, under the Shadow's control, The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Docto
r serial)
"Can anyone join in this conversation, or do you need a certificate?"
Duggan, who can't understand the futuristic technobabble, City of Death (Fourth
Doctor serial)
"Think of me as an anomaly within an impossibility, and get on with your tea."
Professor Chronotis, Shada (Fourth Doctor serial)
"Even if that statue had been made of stone, I doubt it would have killed you.
It would take a mountain to crush an ego such as yours."
Jobel to the Sixth Doctor, Revelation of the Daleks (Sixth Doctor serial)
"You circus wierdoes-"
Stallslady from The Greatest Show In The Galaxy (Seventh Doctor serial)
"I now know what the curse of Fenric seeks. The ancient treasures have spoken t
o me in my dreams- Tonight I shall die, and the words die with me-"
Dr. Judson reading inscriptions from The Curse Of Fenric (Seventh Doctor serial
)
"Perhaps a man only enjoys danger when there's nothing else left. When you came
aboard my scanners identified your species... It's remarkable you even exist."
Jabe The End of the World (Ninth Doctor serial)
"Then, stop wasting time ... Time Lord."

Jabe The End of the World (Ninth Doctor serial)

"What phantasmagoria is this?"
Charles Dickens on the Gelth, The Unquiet Dead (Ninth Doctor serial)
"Well, what are we wasting time for? Driver! The chase is on!"
Charles Dickens on discovering The Doctor is a "fan", The Unquiet Dead (Ninth D
octor serial)
"Oh no you don't! You should have promoted me years back!"
Cathica The Long Game (Ninth Doctor Serial)
"Guests are reminded that Platform One strictly prohibits the use of weapons, t
eleportation and religion."
Platform One Automated Announcement, The End of the World (Ninth Doctor Serial)
"I dub thee Sir Doctor of TARDIS. And thee, Dame Rose of the Powell Estate."
Queen Victoria, Tooth and Claw (Tenth Doctor Serial)
"My lonely Doctor, so very, very alone."
Reinette, reading the Doctor's thoughts, The Girl In The Fireplace (Tenth Docto
r Serial)
"A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction."
Reinette explaining how she read the Doctor's thoughts, The Girl In The Firepla
ce (Tenth Doctor Serial)
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Conversation
[edit]
First Doctor's era
"What do you think of that, now, eh? A Viking helmet."
"Maybe."
"What do you mean, 'maybe'? What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow?"
The First Doctor and his trademark wit, talking with Steven in The Time Meddler
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Second Doctor's Era
"The Doctor always wore this. If you are him it should fit... That settles it!"
"I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wing
s."
"Then you did change."
"Life depends on change, and renewal."
"Oh, that's it, you've been renewed, have you?"
"Renewed? Have I? That's it, I've been renewed. It's part of the TARDIS. Without
it I couldn't survive."
The 2nd Doctor's explanation for regeneration to Ben and Polly, The Power of the
Daleks
"Do you suffer from headaches?"
Man: "No."
The Doctor bangs his head on the table.
"Do you suffer from headaches?"
The Doctor pretending to be German doctor, The Highlanders
"Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?"
"Yes, Jamie, I believe I have."
"What are you going to do?"
"Bung a rock at it."
The 2nd Doctor solution with Jamie to facing an inactive Yeti, The Abominable Sn
owmen
"Come on, back to the TARDIS."
"Is that the right way?"
"Of course it's the right way. No it could be... erm..."
"We're lost, aren't we."
"No, I wouldn't say that. We're just er... well...um... [beat] You want to know
something?"
"What?"

"I think we're lost."

Jamie and Zoe, The Mind Robber
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Third Doctor's Era
1: "Now what's a bridge for? Eh?"
2: "Well, erm..."
3: "Crossing?"
1: "Right! So stop dilly-dallying, and cross it!"
The First, Second and Third Doctors (shown by numbers), The Three Doctors
"What are we going to do now?"
"Keep it confused, feed it with useless information- I wonder if I have a televi
sion set handy..."
Sergeant Benton and the Second Doctor, The Three Doctors
B: "Now see here Doctor, you have finally gone too far"
D: "I rather think we all have. What's it like out there?"
B: "There's... well there's sand everywhere!"
D: "Oh, splendid! Who's for a swim?"
B: "Do you realise what you've done? You've stolen the whole of UNIT HQ. Now wha
t am I going to tell Geneva? That the whole blessed building has been picked up
and put down on some deserted beach? We're probably miles from London."
D: "I'm afraid we're a little bit further than that, Brigadier."
B: "You mean we're not even in the same country?" (beat) (D whispers to S) "Ther
e'll be international repercussions. This could be construed as an invasion."
S: "It's not just a matter of the same country, sir. If the Doctor's right, we'r
e not even in the same universe."
B: "What? Oh nonsense, Benton, that's a beach out there. It's probably Norfolk o
r somewhere like that."
D: "Oh, please, if you'd only listen to me..."
B: "Right. I'll tell you what we'll do. You two stay here. See that no-one wande
rs in. We can't have the place overrun with holidaymakers. I'll nip out, find a
phone and tell the authorities excactly where we are. I'm fairly sure that's Cro
mer. Back in a jiff!"
The Brigadier(B), the Second Doctor (D) and Sergeant Benton (S) after UNIT HQ h
as been swallowed by a black hole in The Three Doctors
"There's no use begging for mercy, Doctor."
"Oh, I'm not. No, I'm merely working out a few sums to keep myself from getting
bored. Now let's see - pi: 3.1416..."
The B.O.S.S and the Doctor while the Doctor is being brainwashed, The Green Dea
th
"Doctor, believe me, we wish you no harm."
"Don't worry, my dear fellow, I'm having a whale of a time."
"In the end, we all want the same thing: an ordered society, with everyone happy
and well fed..."
"...Global Chemicals taking all the profits."
"What's best for Global Chemicals is best for the world, is best for you."
"Such as a little touch of brainwashing?"
"Freedom from fear, freedom from pain..."
"...freedom from freedom."
Stevens and the Doctor, The Green Death
"Waiting for this mysterious scientific advisor of yours to turn up?"
"That's right, sir."
"(Sarcastically) I suppose he'll just materialize out of thin air."
"Very probably."
General Finch and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Invasion of the Dinosaurs
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Fourth Doctor's era
"Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory. Something contagious and
infectious that killed on contact. A virus that would destroy all other forms o
f life... would you allow its use?"
"It is an interesting conjecture."

"Would you do it?"

"The only living thing...the microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fasci
nating idea."
"But would you do it?"
"Yes. Yes. To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that
life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on
my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes. I would do it.
That power would set me up above the gods. And through the Daleks I shall have t
hat power!"
The Doctor and the Kaled scientist Davros, creator of the Daleks, considering hi
s options, Genesis of the Daleks
Butler: "Oh you're not fooling me sir, you came with Dr. Warlock didn't you?
Doctor: "Did we?"
Butler: "He asked you to scout 'round while he kept His Nibs busy."
Doctor: "Who?"
Butler: "The Egyptian, sir."
Doctor: "Ah, Egyptian eh? Is this where he keeps his relatives?"
The Fourth Doctor and the Butler, Pyramids of Mars
"Well, Mr Scarman, I really must congratulate you for inventing the radio teles
cope 40 years early.
"That, sir, is a Marconiscope. It's purpose is..."
"...is to receive radio emissions from the stars."
(pause) "How could you possibly know that?"
"Well, you see, Mr Scarman, I have the advantage of being slightly ahead of you.
Sometimes behind you, but usually ahead of you."
"I see."
"I'm sure you don't but it's very nice of you to try."
The Fourth Doctor and Laurance Scarman, Pyramids of Mars
Doctor: Where are We?
Scarman: [whispered] A priest hole
Doctor: In a Victorian Gothic Foray? Nonsense!
Sarah: Oh, so pedantic at a time like this!
The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Lawrence Scarman, Pyramids of Mars
(pointing) "Door. Key."
"As simple as that?"
"No, not really."
"I didn't think so."
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane, Pyramids of Mars
"Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watc
one false move and you'll never know the time again."
h with a hammer and chisel
"Any more comforting thoughts?"
"No. Just let me know if it starts to get hot."
"Don't worry. You'll hear me breaking the sound barrier!"
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane, Pyramids of Mars
"Serve you, Sutekh?! Your name is abominated in every civilized world! Whether t
hat name be Set, Satan, Sados-"
"Serve me, Doctor?"
"NEVER!"
(Sutekh's eyes flash as the Doctor reels in Pain)
(Laughing) "You pit your puny mind against mine? Kneel!"
"N-NEVER!"
"Kneel! Kneel before the might of Sutekh!"
(In great pain, the Doctor slowly kneels before Sutekh)
"Here in my presence you are nothing but an ant, a termite. Abase yourself, you
grovelling insect (chuckles)."
The Doctor and Sutekh the Destroyer, Pyramids of Mars
"But you use your powers for evil!"
"Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread, I leave n
othing but dust and darkness...I find that good!"

The Doctor and Sutekh the Destroyer, Pyramids of Mars

"Okay, start talking."
(dramatic pause) "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch..."
(referring to corpse) "What happened to him?"
"Who, Wolfgang Amadeus...? Oh, him. Oh, he died."
Scorby interrogates the Fourth Doctor, The Seeds of Doom
"The evil one!"
"Well nobody's perfect but that's overstating it a little!"
Leela and the Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil
"One more thing -your name."
"What about my name?"
"It's too long. By the time I've called out, 'Look out' what's your name?"
"Romanadvoratrelundar."
"By the time I've called that out, you could be dead! I'll call you Romana."
"I don't like Romana."
"It's either Romana or Fred."
"All right, call me Fred!"
"Good. Come on, Romana!"
The Fourth Doctor and the First Romana discuss her name, The Ribos Operation
(Guard takes telescope) "This is a forbidden object."
"Why?"
"That is a forbidden question." (Circles Romana) "You are a stranger?"
"Well, yes."
"Strangers are forbidden."
"I did come with the Doctor."
"Who is..."
(Interrupting)"Ah, now, don't tell me, Doctors are forbidden as well."
Guard and Romana I The Pirate Planet
"Do you drive these things for a living?"
"No. I save planets, mostly."
Kimus and the Fourth Doctor, The Pirate Planet
(Romana whistles)
"What's the matter?"
"Look! Radiation levels you wouldn't believe!"
"Good heavens! You could fry eggs in the street."
"But that means..."
"What?"
"There must be a huge nuclear war going on down there!"
"None at all, no."
"Well what else could it be?"
"I don't know. Probably someone throwing a huge breakfast party. Think po- Why
do you always assume the worst?"
"Because it usually happens."
"Empirical poppycock! Where's your joy in life? Where's your optimism?"
"It opted out."
"Optimism: Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on
insane."
"Oh, do shut up, K9." (To Romana) "Listen, Romana, Whenever you go into a new s
ituation, you must always believe the best until you find out exactly what the s
ituation's all about. Then, believe the worst."
"Ah, but what happens if it turns out not to be the worst after all?"
"Don't be ridiculous. It always is."
The Fourth Doctor, Romana I and K9, The Armageddon Factor
"I know you. And I know there is a want of patience in your nature."
"Yes, fools rush in..."
(Interrupting) "Exactly."
The Shadow and the Fourth Doctor, The Armageddon Factor
"The war is over. The bombardment is over. The next step is obliteration."
"For whom?"
(K9 and Mentallis converse electronically.) "Everything."

K9 and the Fourth Doctor, The Armageddon Factor

"What have you done?"
"I don't know. K9, what have I done?"
"You have triggered primary alert function."
"Blast!"
"Affirmative."
Romana I, the Fourth Doctor and K9, The Armageddon Factor
"I think Merak needs some medical attention."
"Yes. Look, Astra, why don't you and Merak go back to Atrios via the transmat?
He'll show you the way."
(Whispers) "I'd feel safer with you."
"Well, I dare say, but we've got a few complicated things to do and Merak does
need attention. I think the thing you should do is go back and show your people
that you're free."
"He's right, Astra."
"Of course I'm right! Off you go, now. Hope to see you soon."
Romana I, the fourth Doctor, Princess Astra and Merak, The Armageddon Factor
"Well, here we are. We've tracked him to his lair."
"Yes, we've got him exactly where he wants us."
The Fourth Doctor and Romana I, The Armageddon Factor
"Blimey, it's a dog. Who's a little tin dog then?"
"Your silliness is noted."
Drax and K9, The Armageddon Factor
"Doctor, you shall die for this!"
"Ah, yes, but the Key to Time is still in my possession. Rage all you like!"
"I shall destroy you for this! I shall disperse every particle of your being to
the furthest reaches of eternity!"
"I'd love to stay and chat, but you know how it is. Places to go, people to see
."
The Black Guardian and the Fourth Doctor, The Armageddon Factor
"So, the long darkness has ended. An eternity of waiting is over. The resurrect
ion has come, as I always knew it would. Now, where are my Daleks?" (turns and s
ees the Doctor) "Doctor!"
"Davros! You don't look a day older, and I'd hoped you were dead."
"Dead? I do not die! Mark this moment, Doctor. In this history of the universe,
this moment is unique. Davros lives!"
"Yes, well, I can see your long rest hasn't done anything to cure your megaloma
nia."
Davros and the Fourth Doctor, Destiny of the Daleks
"Where are we going?"
"Are you speaking philosophically or geographically?"
"Philosophically."
"Then we're going to lunch."
The Second Romana and The Fourth Doctor, City of Death
"How did you get out?"
"Through a hole in the back."
"But there isn't one"
(holds up sonic screwdriver) "There is now!"
Pangol and the Fourth Doctor, The Leisure Hive
"Adric, I've given you a privileged insight into the mystery of time, yes?"
"Yes."
"Introduced you to adventures beyond imagining, yes?"
"Yes."
"And you criticize my logic?"
"No, no I'm just saying that a lot of the time you don't really make sense."
"Oh, you've noticed that have you? Well, anybody can make sense."
The Doctor and Adric, The Keeper of Traken
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Fifth Doctor's era
"Which is the quickest way out of here?"

Each of the women at the fountain point in different directions.

"Yes. Well, That's democracy for you."
The Fifth Doctor, Castrovalva
"See, with the Kinda, they seem innocent enough. And they smile a lot. Or they
used to."
"Used to?"
"Until we took the hostages."
"The hostages?"
"Only a couple. Standard procedure. It's in the manual."
Sanders and the Fifth Doctor, Kinda
"Is that supposed to be Heathrow?"
"It is."
"Well, they've certainly let the grass grow since I was last there."
"Actually they haven't built the airport yet. We're about three hundred years e
arly."
"Terrific. Maybe I can go out, buy a claim on the land. When they get around to
inventing aircraft I'll make a fortune!"
Tegan and Adric, The Visitation
"You're being a very stupid woman."
"That isn't a very original observation."
The Terileptil Leader and Tegan, The Visitation
"How do you feel?"
"Groggy, sore, and bad-tempered."
"Almost your old self."
The Doctor and Tegan, The Visitation
"This carnage isn't necessary."
"It's survival Doctor. Just as these primitives kill lesser species to protect
themselves, so I kill them."
"That's hardly an argument."
"It's not supposed to be an argument! It's a statement!"
The Doctor and the Terileptil leader, The Visitation
"Doctor."
"I see we've both had a face lift since we last met."
The Emperor Dalek and The Doctor from the audio story The Mutant Phase
"Have faith, Brigadier. Have I ever led you astray?"
"On many occasions."
"Yes... well, this will be the exception."
The Second Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Five Doctors
"This is madness. The Daleks won't thank you for capturing me they'll kill you!
"
"I didn't quite tell you the truth. I serve the Daleks. I'm a Dalek agent."
The Fifth Doctor and Stein, Resurrection of the Daleks
"If I were you, I'd be dead."
"I lack your practice, Davros."
Davros and The Fifth Doctor, Resurrection of the Daleks
"I am the Master, you will obey me."
"Yeah? Well I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout as loud as you can!"
The Master and Peri, Planet of Fire
"Doctor, why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?"
"Does it offend you?"
"No, just curious."
"Safety precaution. I'm allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spe
ctrum."
"Well how does the celery help?"
"If the gas is present, the celery turns purple."
"And then what do you do?"
"I eat the celery. If nothing else I'm sure it's good for my teeth."
Peri and the Fifth Doctor, The Caves of Androzani
"We shall become the best of companions!"
"What do you say, Peri? We can go on nature walks, have picnics and jolly eveni

ngs 'round the campfire!"

Sherez Jek and the Fifth Doctor, The Caves of Androzani
"He s mad, Doctor; utterly mad!"
"And a raving egotist! Said my mind was nearly the equal of his; the incredible
conceit!"
Peri and the Fifth Doctor about Sherez Jek, The Caves of Androzani
"Stotzie! We ll touching down in a couple of minutes. Or more likely crashing dow
n, you see I m a bit out of practice with manual landings so if I were you, I d find
something firm to hang on to!"
The Fifth Doctor to Stotz, The Caves of Androzani
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Sixth Doctor's era
"Doctor?"
"You were expecting someone else?"
"I... I... I..."
"Three I's in one breath make you a rather egotisical young lady."
"What's happened?"
"Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon!" (Grins)
The Sixth Doctor's first words to Peri in the closing lines of The Caves of And
rozani
"No more executions, torture, nothing."
"It's all changed. We're free."
"Are we?"
"Yes."
(pause) "What are we going to do?"
(thinks) "Dunno."
The closing lines of Vengeance on Varos, as two citizens of Varos (named Arak a
nd Etta respectively) contemplate on their freedom.
"Perhaps you should see a doctor?"
"Are you trying to be funny?!"
Peri and the Sixth Doctor, The Two Doctors
"Prepare the surgical unit! Such a foolish waste of energy!"
"No arm in trying."
Davros and The Sixth Doctor after Davros' hand is shot off, Revelation of the D
aleks
"Is there any intelligent life on this planet?"
"Apart from me you mean?"
Peri and The Sixth Doctor, The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet
"YOU WILL SUR-REN-DER!"
"If we do we betray the entire universe!"
"THEN YOU MUST BE SHOWN THE POW-ER OF THE DAL-EKS!"
"No! Doctor! The Black Dalek, it's igniting the element!
"No! You can't!"
"THE DA-LEK INS-TINCT IS TO CON-QUER OR DES-TROY!"
"What do we do?"
"What CAN we do! Either the universe falls to the Daleks or becomes a... a snuf
fbox! Either way, it's the end of everything!"
The Sixth Doctor, Romana and the President of the Time Lords are given the defi
nitive ultimatum by the Black Dalek in the Big Finish Productions audio adventur
e The Apocalypse Element.
(A signal sounds alerting the Doctor)
"Quickly, Mel! Press the red button! Get the message on the screen.
(Mel is pressing the button repeatedly but the message still isn't appearing)
"Press it! Press it!"
"I am!"
(The Doctor presses a different button to the one Mel was pushing and the messa
ge appears)
"You said red."
"Did I? It must be the Carrot Juice making me colour blind!"
The Sixth Doctor and Mel, The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids

"Oh no, now I really am finished!"

"Who's that?"
"Just one of my oldest enemies."
The Sixth Doctor and Mel after seeing the Master appear on the Matrix screen in
The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
"Right! A bracing glass of Carrot Juice."
"Carrot Juice!"
"And then we'll get you back on the exercise bike."
"You know... I think I was too rash in turning down that offer of the Presidenc
y."
"Come on."
"Ugh. Carrot Juice?"
Mel and The Sixth Doctor, The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe
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Seventh Doctor's era
"(Ranting) We shall become all-"
"-powerful! Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unli
mited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
Davros and the Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"In the end, you are merely another Time Lord!"
"Oh, Davros. I am far more than just another Time Lord."
Davros and the Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks
"Oh dear. Women. Not really my field."
"Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon."
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the Seventh Doctor, Battlefield
"Don't you have things you hate?"
"I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations: terrible places, full of lost
luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love, and tyranny, and crue
lty. We all have a world of our own terrors to face."
"I face mine on my own terms!"
Ace and the Seventh Doctor, Ghost Light
"It seems we must always meet again."
"They do say opposites attract."
The Master and the Seventh Doctor, Survival
"Where to now Ace?"
"Home."
"Home?"
"The TARDIS."
"Yes. The TARDIS"
The Seventh Doctor and Ace, Survival
"I am not human. I am *not* like you."
"Nobody's like me Mr. Smith."
The Seventh Doctor and Grace, Doctor Who
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Eighth Doctor's Era
"It was on the Planet Skaro that my old enemy the master was finally put on tria
l. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read. And then he
made his last, and I thought somewhat curious request. He demanded that I, The D
octor, a rival time lord, should take his remains back to our home planet, Galli
frey. It was a request they should never have granted.
The introduction of Doctor Who
"Maybe you have selective amnesia brought on by shock."
"Maybe. I can't remember."
Grace and The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"WAIT! Don't. He's... um... he's British."
"Yes. Yes, I suppose I am. Jelly Baby, officer?"
Grace and The Eighth Doctor, explaining the Doctor's eccentricities, Doctor Who
"Now stand back, or I ll shoot myself."
The Eighth Doctor holding himself a hostage to a police officer, Doctor Who
"Doctor?"

"Yes?"
"I only have one life. Can you remember that?"
"I'll try."
"Thank you."
Grace and The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"I never liked this planet, Doctor."
"Well that's good, because any minute now it shall cease to exist!"
The Master and the Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"This is his last chance to stay alive and you know it!"
"What do you know of last chances?!"
"More than you!"
The Eighth Doctor and The Master, Doctor Who
"You want dominion over the living, yet all you do is KILL!"
"Life is wasted on the living!"
The Eighth Doctor and The Master, Doctor Who
"So, er...what happened to the Master?"
(The TARDIS produces a deep grumbling sound)
"Indigestion."
Chang Lee and The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
"There you go... interfering again."
"Grace, there's something you should know--"
"Don't tell me."
"Why not?"
"Because I know who I am and that's enough."
"I'm glad."
Grace and The Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who
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Ninth Doctor's era
The Doctor: "I'm The Doctor, by the way. What's your name?"
Rose: "Rose."
The Doctor: "Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!"
The Ninth Doctor to Rose, Rose (The Doctor's rapid introducion of himself in th
e new series)
Jackie: "I'm in my dressing gown."
The Doctor: "Yes, you are."
Jackie: "There's a strange man in my bedroom."
The Doctor: "Yes, there is."
Jackie: "Well, anything could happen."
The Doctor: "Ah... No!"
Jackie Tyler and The Doctor, Rose.
Rose: "Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off!"
The Doctor: "Yeah I can, here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!"
Rose and the Ninth doctor, Rose
Clive: "The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes he'
s there, and he has only one constant companion."
Rose: "Who?"
Clive: "Death."
Clive and Rose, Rose
The Doctor: "Where do you want to start?"
Rose: "Um, the inside's bigger than the outside?"
The Doctor: "Ye-es."
Rose: "It's alien."
The Doctor: "Yep."
Rose: "... Are you alien?"
The Doctor: "Yes."
(beat)
The Doctor: "That all right?"
Rose: "Yeah."
The Doctor: "It's called the TARDIS, this thing. Time And Relative Dimension In
Space."

(Rose lets out a sob)

The Doctor: "Its ok. Culture Shock. Happens to the best of us."
The Ninth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS, Rose
Rose: "Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead and you went and forgot hi
m AGAIN! You're right, you are alien!"
The Doctor: "Look, if I did forget some kid named Rickey--"
Rose: "He's not a kid!"
The Doctor: "--It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blun
dering about this planet, ALL RIGHT?"
Rose: "'ALL RIGHT'?!"
The Doctor: "Yes! It is!"
(beat)
Rose: "If you're an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?"
The Doctor: "Lots of planets have a North!"
Rose and the Ninth Doctor, Rose
Rose: "So what you're saying is, the whole world revolves around you?"
The Doctor: "Sort of, yeah."
Rose: "You're full of it."
The Doctor: "Sort of, yeah."
Rose and the Ninth Doctor, Rose
The Doctor: "Think of it, plastic, all over the world, every artificial thing wa
iting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables.
.."
Rose: "The breast implants."
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, Rose
"Yes it does. Tell me where you're from."
"It doesn't matter! All right?! All that counts is here and now! And this is ME
!"
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, The End of the World
"OI! Follow that coach!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that sir!"
"And why's that?"
(Furious) "I'll tell you why, because this is MY coach!"
"Do you want me to get rid of him, Mr Dickens?"
"Dickens?"
"Yes?"
"Charles Dickens?"
"Yes."
"THE Charles Dickens?"
"Yes!"
"You're brilliant! Absolutely fantastic! I've read all you stories.... the one
with the ghosts, what's it called?"
"Christmas Carol?"
"No no, the other one...The Signalman, that's it! Brilliant!"
"Do you want me to get rid of him, sir?"
(Calmed down and proud) "No, he can stay."
The Ninth Doctor meets Charles Dickens, The Unquiet Dead
"She slapped you."
"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's
mother."
"Your face..."
"It hurt!"
"You're so gay!"
Rose and the Ninth Doctor, Aliens of London
"I bet you don't even remember my name."
"It's Ricky."
"It's Mickey."
"No, it's Ricky."
"I think I know my own name."

"You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?"
Mickey Smith and the Doctor, Aliens of London.
"What are you doing?"
"Ricky, if I were to tell you what I'm doing to the controls of my frankly magn
ificent timeship, would you even begin to understand?"
"Well I guess not..."
"Then shut it."
The Ninth Doctor and Mickey in Aliens of London
"Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world."
"Would you rather silent-but-deadly?"
The Ninth Doctor and "Joseph Green", Aliens of London
"Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North."
Above character, Aliens of London
"I think you will find that the Prime Minister is a alien in disguise - That's
never gonna work, is it?"
"No."
"Fair enough."
The Ninth Doctor and Policeman in World War Three
"Under jurisdiction of the Emergency Protocols I authorise you to execute this
man!"
"Oh er, wait, er, yes now the thing is, if I was going to, er, execute somebody
by backing them against a wall, between you and me, little word of advice, don'
t stand them against the lift."
"General Asquith" and the Doctor, World War Three
"If we're gonna find their weakness we need to know where they're from. So judg
ing by their body shape that narrows it down to about 5000 planets in travelling
distance. Now what else do we know? Information!"
"They're green."
"Narrows it down!"
"Good sense of smell."
"Narrows it down!"
"They can smell adrenaline"
"Narrows it down!"
"They hunt like its a ritual."
"Narrows it down!"
"The pig technology."
"Narrows it down!"
"The spaceship in the Thames you said slipstream engine."
"Narrows it down!"
"Wait! Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't jus
t smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else, what is it?
"
"Bad breath!"
"That's it."
"Calcium decay!! now that Narrows it down!"
"We're getting there Mum!"
"What else... what else... Hyphenated surnames. Of course! That narrows it down
to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius!!!"
"Oh great, we could write them a letter."
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Harriet Jones, World War Three.
"You, English, look after the girl. Go and, canoodle or spoon, or whatever it i
s you British do."
Van Statten, Dalek
"I ve come to help, I m the Doctor."
"DOC....TOR?"
"Impossible."
"THEE DOC-TOR?"
<The lights come on reveling that the "metaltron" is a Dalek>
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"
The Ninth Doctor and the "metaltron", Dalek

"I am wait-ing for ord-ers."

"What the hell does that mean?"
"I am a sol-dier I was bred to re-ceive ord-ers."
"Well you're never gonna get any, not ever."
"I de-mand or-ders!"
"They're never gonna come. Your race is dead! You all burned! All of you! Ten m
illion ships on fire! The entire Dalek race wiped out in one second!"
"You lie!"
"I watched it happen! I made it happen!
"You des-troyed us?!"
"... I had no choice."
"And what of the Time-Lords?"
"Dead. They burned with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.
"
"And the cow-ard sur-vived."
"Oh and I caught your little signal, 'help me, poor little thing'. but there's
no one else coming cause there's no one else left."
"I am alone in the uni-ver-se."
"Yep."
"So are you. We are the same."
"We're not the same! I'm not the... No wait maybe we are... yeah right okay. Yo
u've got a point cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what
you deserve... <raises eye brow and grins> Exterminate. (throws switch elecrocu
ting Dalek)
"Have pity!"
"Why should I? You never did!"
The Ninth Doctor and the 'last Dalek', in Dalek
"The metal is just battle armour. The real Dalek creature is inside."
"What does it look like?"
"A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered. Every
single emotion was removed except hate."
"Genetically engineered. By whom?"
"By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world. You'd
like him."
The Ninth Doctor and Henry Van Statten discuss the Daleks and their creator Dav
ros in Dalek
"How did it get to earth does anyone know?"
"It fell to earth on the Ascension islands, burned in it's crater for 3 days be
fore anyone could get near it and the whole time it was screaming. Must have gon
e insane"
"It must have fallen through time the only survior."
"you talked about a war?"
"The Time War, the final battle between my people and the Dalek race."
"But you survived too."
"Not by choice."
The Ninth Doctor, Van Statten and Diana Goodard in Dalek
"Adam, get her out of here"
"Come with us, you can't stop it!"
"Someone's got to try. Now get out, don't look back just run!"
De Maggio and Rose, De Maggio stays behind to fight the Dalek as it elevates up
the stairs, Dalek
"I thought you were the great expert Doctor, if you're so impressive why not ju
st reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate, there must be someth
ing that it needs, everything needs something."
"What's the nearest town?"
"Salt Lake City."
"Population?"
"One Million"
"All dead. If the Dalek gets out it'll murder every living creature that's all i
t needs."

"But why would it do that!?"

"Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and a
nything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing, and you Van S
tatten, You've let it loose!"
Henry van Statten and The Ninth Doctor, Dalek
"All right then. If you want orders, follow this one. Kill yourself."
"The Daleks must survive!"
"The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job, and make the Daleks extin
ct. Rid the universe of your filth. Why don't you just die!"
[beat] "You would make a good Dalek."
The Ninth Doctor and "The last Dalek", Dalek
"I feel your fear."
"What do you expect?"
"Daleks mustn't fear! Cannot fear! *fires death ray either side of Rose* You gav
e me life. What else have you given me?! I am contaminated!"
'Last Dalek' and Rose, Dalek
"I'm begging you, don't kill him. You didn't kill me."
"But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill! What am I? What AM I?"
The last Dalek and Rose, Dalek
"Van Statten, you tortured me. Why?"
"I wanted to help you, I just...I don't know. I, I was trying to help. I though
t if we could get through to you, if we could...mend you. I wanted you better. I
'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I swear! I just wanted you to talk!"
"Then hear me talk now. Exterminate. Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!"
The last Dalek and Van Statten, Dalek
"Don't do it! Don't kill him! You don't have to do this any more. There must be
something else, not just killing. What else is there? What do you want?"
"I want...freedom."
The last Dalek and Rose, Dalek
"Rose! Get out of the way 'now!'"
"No. I won't let you do this."
"That thing killed hundreds of people!"
"It's not the one pointing the gun at me."
"I've got to do it! I've got to end it! The Daleks destroyed my home. My people
! I've got nothing left!"
"But look at it."
"What's it doing?" (puzzled look)
"It's the sunlight. That's all it wants."
"It can't.."
"It couldn't kill Statten, it couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you D
octor? What are you changing into?"
(Doctor gets pained look) "I couldn't... I wasn't... Oh Rose. They're all dead.
" (Lowers gun)
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, Dalek
"Why do we survive?"
"I don't know."
"I am the last of the Daleks."
"You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you, you've absorbed her D
NA. You're mutating."
"Into what?"
"Something new...I'm sorry."
"Isn't that better?"
"Not for a Dalek."
The Ninth Doctor, Rose and the last Dalek, Dalek
"I can feel so many ideas...so much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to
die.
"I can't do that."
"This is not life - this is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruc
tion! Obey. Obey! OBEY!"

"Do it."
"Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?"
*sobbing* "Yep."
"So am I. Exterminate."
Rose and the last Dalek, Dalek
"I'll let the Doctor describe it."
"The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Planet Earth is at its height, co
vered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion, the centre of a galact
ic domain that stretches across a million planets and species."
*Adam faints*
"He's your boyfriend."
"Not any more."
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, Long Game
"I say spaceship you're not interested, I say time machine..."
"I didn't plan it, I just saw it happening and thought I could stop it."
"Ah, I did it again: I picked another stupid ape."
"What's the problem? He's never gonna be famous, he's not gonna start WW3 or any
thing."
"Rose there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man.
That's the most important thing in creatation! The whole world's different beca
use he's alive!"
"So you'd have him dead?"
"I didn't say that..."
"No I get it: for once you're not the most important man in my life."
"Rose my whole planet was destroyed my family do you think it never occurred to
me to back and save them?!"
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, Father's Day
"You're mummy isn't here."
"Are you my mummy?"
"No mummies here. Nobody here but us chickens. Well, this chicken."
"I'm scared. Let me in. Please."
"Why are those children frightened of you?"
"Please let me in mummy, I'm scared of the bombs. (Beat) Please, mummy. Please
let me in. I'm scared of the bombs, mummy."
"Ok. I'm opening the door. I'm opening it now."
The Ninth Doctor and the Empty Child, The Empty Child"
"Sonic blaster 51st Century... Weapon factories at Villiangard?"
"Yeah. You've been to the factories?"
"Once."
"They're gone now, reactor went critical. Vaporised the lot."
"Like I said, once. There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas a
re good."
The Ninth Doctor and Jark Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!"
"Why not?!"
"Good source of potassium!"
The Ninth Doctor and Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"Nice switch"
"Thanks, from the groves at Villiangard thought it was apporiate."
"There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villiangard now and you did that
?"
"Bananas are good."
The Ninth Doctor and Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
(incredulous) "Who has a sonic screwdriver?"
"I do!"
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'oo-hoo, this could be a little more son
ic?'"
"What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabin
ets to put up?"
Jack Harkness and the Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances

"Okay. That should hold it."

"The door? The wall didn't stop it!"
"Well, it's got to find us first. C'mon, we're not done yet. Assets! Assets!"
"Well, I've got a banana, and in a pinch you could put up some shelves."
The Ninth Doctor and Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"You just assume I...."
"What?"
"You just assume I don't.... 'dance'."
(Amused)"Are you telling me you do.... 'dance'?"
"I've been around for nine hundred years, I think at somepoint I've... 'danced'.
"
"Doesn't the universe implode or something if you... 'dance'?"
"Well I've got the moves but I wouldn't like to boast."
(Rose giggles, runs to the radio and turns it up)
(Completely Innocently) "You got the moves? Show me your moves."
(Unnerved) "Rose, I'm... trying to resonate concrete."
"Jack'll get us out. Come on. The world doesn't end if the Doctor dances."
Rose and the Ninth Doctor, The Doctor Dances
"He's not a captain, Rose."
"You know what I think? I think you're experiencing 'Captain Envy'."
"If he was ever a captain, he's been defrocked."
"Yeah? Shame I missed that."
"Actually, I quit. No-one takes my frock. Most people notice when they've been t
eleported. You guys are so sweet."
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"I'll have the navcom up and running in ten minutes. Carry on with... whatever y
ou were doing."
"We were... talking about dancing."
"Didn't look like talking."
"Didn't feel like dancing."
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness, The Doctor Dances
"Are the words "distract the guard" heading in my general direction?"
"I don't think that's such a good idea."
"Don't worry I can handle it."
"I've gotten to know Algie quite well since I've been here. Trust me, you're not
his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up."
"Don't worry, he's a 51st century guy he's just a little more flexible when it c
omes to... 'dancing'."
"What do you mean?"
"Well by his time you lot are spread over half the galaxy."
"Meaning?"
"So many species, so little time."
"You mean that's what we do when we get out there? We seek new life and..."
"Dance."
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness The Doctor Dances
"My leg's grown back! When I came to the hospital, I only had one leg..."
"Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?"
a woman and Dr Constantine The Doctor Dances
<Rose, the Doctor, and Jack finish telling Mickey how they are using the Cardiff
rift to refuel the TARDIS>
"- and off we go -"
"- into time -"
[all together]"- AND SPACE!"
<the three high-five>
"My god, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever don't you?
"Yep"
"Yah"
"Yep"
Rose, Jack Harkness, The Ninth Doctor, Mickey Boom Town
"Hello I've come to see the Lord Mayor."

"Do you have an appointment?"

"No, just an old friend wanted to pop in and surprise her. Can't wait to see he
r face."
"The Lord Mayor is having tea, perhaps some..."
"Look, just go in there and tell her 'the Doctor' would like to see her."
"Doctor Who?"
"Just the Doctor, tell her exactly that 'The Doctor'."
"Hold on a tic."
'The assistant goes inside, Doctor turns to the camera, raises an eyebrow when
he hears the cup drop'
"The Lord Mayor says thank you for dropping by but she's up to her eyes in pape
rwork, and if you wouldn't mind making an appointment for next week..."
"She's climbing out the window isn't she?"
"Yes she is."
Doctor and secretary, Boom Town
"She's got a teleport! That's cheating! Now we'll never get her!"
"Oh the Doctor's very good at teleports."
<Doctor uses sonic-screwdriver to bring Margaret back three or four times each
time closer than she was before>
"I could do this all day.."
"This... is... persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to
you?"
"You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet."
"Apart from that."
The Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Rose, and 'Margaret Bliane', Boom Town
"Cause opening the rift means you'll pull this ship apart."
"So soon?"
"It's not just any power source, it's the TARDIS. My TARDIS. The best ship in t
he universe."
"It'll make wonderful scrap."
"Doctor what's that light?"
"The heart of the TARDIS. This ship's alive. You've opened it's soul."
"It's so bright."
"Look at it Margaret."
"...Beautiful."
"Look inside Blon Fel Fotch. Look at the light."
(Margaret looks up at the Doctor who smiles slightly)
"Thank you." (Skin suit falls now empty.)
The Ninth Doctor, Rose and 'Margaret Blaine' Boom Town
"You are live on channel forty-four thousand. Please do not swear."
"You have got to be kidding."
The Ninth Doctor and the mysterious electronic voice, Bad Wolf
"Just stand still and let the Defabricator work its magic."
"What's a Defabricator?"
Jack's clothes are disintegrated
"Okay, Defabricator. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Am I naked in front
of millions of viewers?"
"Absolutely."
"Ladies, your viewing figures just went up."
Jack Harkness and the Trin-E and Zu-Zana bots, Bad Wolf
"And now it's time for the face off."
"What does that mean, do I get to compete with someone else?"
pretends to spar with an imaginary opponent
"No. Like I said, face..."
Trin-E bot holds up hand, her fingers are full of needles ready to inject Jack
"...off."
holds up other hand which is a chainsaw
Jack looks at the chainsaw as it is started up
"I think you'd look good with a dog's head!"
Holds up hand which is in fact a pair of shears

"Or even no head at all, that would be so outrageous!"

"And we could stich your legs to the middle of your chest!"
"Nothing is too extreme, it's to die for."
"Now hold on ladies, I don't want to have to shoot either one of you."
"But you're unarmed!"
"And you're naked!"
Jack reaches behind him briefly, his hand returns holding a very small gun
"But.. that's a compact laser delux."
"Where were you hiding that!?"
"You really don't wanna know."
Captain Jack Harkness and Trin-E and Zu-Zana bots, Bad Wolf
"The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of -- mind you, have they
still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?"
"Oh, Bear With Me? I love that one!"
"And me. The celebrity edition, where the bear got in the bath... But it's all g
one wrong! I mean, history's gone wrong. Again!"
The Ninth Doctor and Lynda Moss, Bad Wolf
(Jack tries to enter a room, controller screams in pain)
"Archive six is out of bounds"
"Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?" (Hold guns in air)
Bad Wolf staff member and Captain Jack Harkness, Bad Wolf
"Alert! ALERT! We are detected!"
"It is the Doctor! He has located us!"
"Open communications channels!"
"I will speak to the Doctor!"
"Oh that's nice. Hello."
"The Dalek stratagem nears completion: the fleet is almost ready! You will not
intervene!"
"Why's that then?"
"We have your associate! You will obey or she will be exterminated!"
"No."
"Explain yourself!"
"I said no."
"What is the meaning of this negative?"
"It means no."
"But she will be destroyed!"
"No! 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to
save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save
the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking D
alek out of the sky!!"
"But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan!"
"Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?"
"Yes, Doctor?"
"I'm coming to get you."
"The Doctor is intiating hostile action!"
"The stratagem must advance! Begin the invasion of earth!"
"The Doctor will be exterminated!"
*all Daleks on board* "EXTERMINATE!"
The Ninth Doctor, Daleks, and Rose, Bad Wolf
"You know the Doctor, you understand him. You will predict his actions!"
"I don't know, and even if I did I wouldn't tell ya."
"Predict, predict, PREDICT!"
"TARDIS detected, in-flight.
"Launch missiles. Exterminate!"
"You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defences, you're gonna kill him!"
"You have predicted correctly."
Rose and the Daleks aboard the Dalek mothership, The Parting of the Ways
"The Daleks have the answers... let's go meet the neighbors!"

"Wait no you can't!"

*Doctor leaves TARDIS*
"Exterminate!"
*Daleks blast but force field stops them*
"Is that it? [beat] Useless! Nul points! Come on out. It's okay, that force fei
ld can hold back anything."
"Almost anything."
"Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that."
"Sorry."
"You know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The
Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right dow
n deep in your DNA there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it ju
st burn when you face me? So tell me how did you survive the Time War?"
"They survived through me."
"Rose, Captain. This is the Emperor of the Daleks."
"You destroyed us Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno but my ship survi
ved. Falling through time crippled but alive."
"I see."
"Do not interupt! Do not interrupt!"
"I think you're forgetting something: I'm the Doctor and if there's one I can i
t's talk. I've got 5 billion languages and you haven't got one way to stop me. S
o if anyone's gonna shut up... IT'S YOU! Now you were saying?"
"We remained here in the Dark Space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed a
nd we quietly infiltrated the human systems, harvesting the criminals, the refug
ees, the dispossessed, they all came to us! The bodies were filleted, pulped, an
d shifted. The seed of the human race is perverted! Only one cell in a billion d
eserved to be nurtured!"
"So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead."
"That makes them... half human."
"Those words are blasphemy!"
"Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme!"
"Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek."
"Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?"
"I reached into the dirt and created new life. I am the god of all Daleks!"
"Worship him! Worship him!
"They're insane! Hiding in silence for hundreds of years that's enough to drive
anyone mad, but it's worse then that. Driven mad by your own flesh the stink of
humanity. You hate your own existance... and that makes them more deadly then e
ver. We're going!"
"You may not leave my presence!"
*Daleks fire in vain against the TARDIS forcefeild*
"Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"Worship him! Worship him!"
The Ninth Doctor, the Dalek Emperor, Daleks, and Rose, The Parting of the Ways
"Doctor, the delta wave. Is it ever gonna be ready?"
"Tell him the truth, Doctor: there is every possibility that the delta-wave cou
ld be completed. but no possibilty of refining it."
"Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth."
"You would kill Humans and Daleks together! If I am god the creator of all thin
gs then what does that make you Doctor?"
"There are colonies out there. The Human race will survive in some form, but yo
u're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you
live. You see the choice I have to make for every human: die free or live as a D
alek. What would you do, Jack?"
"You sent her home, she's safe. Keep working."
"But he will exterminate you!"
"Never doubted him. Never will."
The Ninth Doctor, the Dalek Emperor, and Jack Harkness, The Parting of the Ways
"...and if you wanna remember me, you can do one thing. That's all, one thing.

*turns to Rose* Have a good life. Do that for me Rose. Have a fantastic life.
The Doctor's hologram to Rose after sending her home, The parting of the Ways
"But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to wo
rk, come back home, eat chips and go to bed - is that it?"
"It's what the rest of us do."
"But I can't."
"Why? 'Cos you're better than us?"
"No! I didn't mean that! *pause* But it was. It was a better life. And I don't
mean all the travelling, seeing aliens and spaceships and things, that don't mat
ter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed
you too. You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a st
and. You say no! You have the guts to do whats right when everyone else just run
s away!"
Rose and Mickey, The Parting of the Ways
"You really want to think about this, cause if I activate this signal every liv
ing thing dies."
"I will not die, I am immortal."
"Do you really want to put that to the test?"
"I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor! The Great Exterminator!"
"I'LL DO IT!"
"Then prove yourself Doctor. What are you? Coward or Killer?"
*The Doctor seems to try to push down lever, but he can't and steps back, dropp
ing the handle.*
"Coward, any day."
"Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness."
"What about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?"
"You are the Heathen! You will be exterminated!"
"Maybe it's time."
The Ninth Doctor and the Dalek Emperor, The Parting of the Ways
"Alert! TARDIS materialising!"
*Doctor turns to appearing TARDIS shocked*
"You will not escape!"
*Rose emerges from the TARDIS glowing with the power of the TARDIS*
"What have you done!"
"I looked into the TARDIS, and the TARDIS looked into me."
"You looked into the time vortex?! Rose no-one's meant to see that!"
"This is an abomination!"
"Exterminate!"
*Dalek fires, Rose raises her hand and blocks the beam then makes it 'rewind'*
"I am the bad wolf. I create myself. I take the words... I scatter them in spac
e and time. A message to lead myself here."
"Rose you've got to stop this now! You've got the entire Vortex running through
your head, you're gonna burn!"
"I want you safe... My Doctor. Protected from the false god."
"You cannot hurt me. I am immortal."
"You are tiny! I can see the whole of time and space, every atom of your exista
nce and I divide them."
*Daleks begin to disintergrate*
"I... cannot... die!"
The Ninth Doctor, Time Vortex Rose, Dalek Emperor, and Dalek
"I can see everything. All that is. All that was. All that ever could be."
"That's what I see -- all the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?"
"My head."
"Come here."
"It's killing me."
"I think you need a Doctor."
The Ninth Doctor and Rose, just prior to their kiss, The Parting of the Ways
"Rose Tyler. I was gonna take you to so many places, like Barcelona. Not the ci

ty, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it they've got dogs with no noses, imagine
how many times a day you tell that joke and it's still funny."
"Then why can't we go?"
"Maybe you will, and maybe I will. But not like this."
"You're not making sense."
"I might never make sense again, I might have two heads, or maybe no head. imagi
ne me with no head, and don't say that's an improvement. But it's a bit dodgy; t
his process. You never know what you're gonna end up with"
Doctor is wracked by intense pain*
"Doctor?!"
"Stay away!!"
"Doctor, what's happening? Tell me what's going on."
"I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex and no-one's meant to do that. Eve
ry cell in my body's dying."
"Isn't there something you can do?"
"Yeah, I'm doing it now. See Timelords have this little trick, sort of a way of
cheating death... Except it means I'm gonna change. And I'm not gonna see ya aga
in, not with this daft old face and before I go..."
"Don't say that."
"Rose before I go I just wanna tell you: you were fantastic, absolutely fantasti
c. And you know what? So was I. *Ninth Doctor explodes with light and regenerate
s into the Tenth Doctor* Hello! I kept- *gulp, nauseated expression* Okay... New
teeth. That's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right -- Barcelona!
Rose, the Ninth Doctor, and the Tenth Doctor, in Parting of the Ways.
[edit]
Tenth Doctor's era
Rose: "Can you change back?"
The Doctor: "Do you want me to?"
Rose: "Yeah."
The Doctor: "Oh."
(beat)
Rose: "Can you?"
The Doctor: "No."
Rose and the Tenth Doctor discuss his regeneration, in the Children in Need spec
ial
"Harriet Jones, Prime Minister"
"Yes, I know who you are."
Harriet Jones on numerous occasions, The Christmas Invasion
Major Blake: "The (US) president insists that he takes control of the situation.
"
Harriet Jones: "You can tell the president, and please use these exact words, "H
e's not my boss, and he's certainly not turning this into a war.""
Major Blake and Harriet Jones in The Christmas Invasion
The Doctor: "My head! Ah! I'm having a neural implosion. I need--"
Jackie: "What do you need,--"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "--just say it; tell me,--"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "--tell me, tell me!"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "Painkillers--"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "--d'you need aspirin-The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "--umm, codeine, Paracetamol, oh I dunno, Pepto-Bismol--"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: "--liquid parafine, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E--"
The Doctor: "I need--"
Jackie: (getting hysterical) "--is it food, something simple, bowl of soup, nice
bowl of soup, soup and a sandwich, oh soup and a little ham sandwich?!"

The Doctor: "I need you to shut up!"

Jackie: "Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?"
Jackie trying to aid the Doctor in her own little way, The Chrismas Invasion
The Doctor: "We haven't got much time. If there's pilot fish then - Why is there
an apple in my dressing gown?"
Jackie Tyler: "Oh that's Howard's. Sorry, sorry."
The Doctor: "He keeps apples in his dressing gown?"
Jackie Tyler: "He gets hungry."
The Doctor: "What, he gets hungry in his sleep?"
Jackie Tyler: "Sometimes."
The Tenth Doctor and Jackie Tyler, The Christmas Invasion
The Doctor: "Now, first things first... be honest... how do I look?"
Rose: "Umm... different."
The Doctor: "Good different or bad different?
Rose: "Just... different."
The Doctor: "Am I... ginger?"
Rose: "No, you're just sort of brown."
The Doctor: "Aw, I wanted to be ginger; I've never been ginger! And you, Rose Ty
ler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me!-- Ooh, that's rude... Is that
the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger."
The Doctor to Rose, The Christmas Invasion
Sycorax Leader: "If I might interrupt!"
The Doctor: "Yes, sorry, hello big fella!"
Sycorax Leader: "Who exactly are you?"
The Doctor: "Well, that's the question--"
Sycorax Leader: "I demand to know who you are!"
The Doctor: (mimicking voice) "I don't know! See, there's the thing, I'm the Doc
tor but beyond that...I-I just don't know, I literally do not know who I am. It'
s all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? (winks at Rose) Right old mise
ry? Life and Soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A Gambler? A Fighter? A coward? A
traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence I've certainly
got a gob! And how am I gonna react... when I see this. A great big threatening
button. Ah-hah. A great big threatening button that must not be pressed uner an
y circumstances, am I right? Let me guess, it's some sort of control matrix, hmm
? Hold on, what's feeding it? And what have we got here? Blood? (tastes red liqu
id) Yep, definitely, blood, human blood, A-positive, with just a dash of iron. H
aah. But that means... blood control; blood control!! Awwww, I haven't see blood
control for years! You're controlling all the A-positives. Which leaves us with
a great, big, stinking problem. (tuts) 'Cause I really don't know who I am. I d
on't know when to stop. So if I see a great, big, threatening button - which sho
uld never, ever, ever be pressed - then I just wanna do this! (presses button)"
The Doctor, attempting to discover his personality and saving the world at the
same time, The Christmas Invasion
Sycorax Leader: "You stand as this world's champion?"
The Doctor: "Thank you. I have no idea who I am, but you've just summed me up."
The Sycorax Leader and the Tenth Doctor in The Christmas Invasion
Sycorax Leader: "Witchcraft!"
The Doctor: "Time Lord."
The Sycorax Leader and the Tenth Doctor, after the Doctor regenerates his severe
d hand, The Christmas Invasion
The Doctor: (furious) "That was murder!"
Harriet Jones: "That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship tha
t fell to Earth 10 years ago."
The Doctor: "But they were leaving!"
Harriet Jones: "You said yourself, Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell
others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time, you
come and go. It happened today, Mr Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered;
they died right in front of me while you were sleeping! In which case, we have
to defend ourselves."
The Doctor: (sarcastically) "Britian's Golden Age."

Harriet Jones: "It comes with a price."

The Doctor: "I gave them the wrong warning. I should have told them to run, as f
ast as they can, run and hide, because the monsters are coming; the human race!"
Harriet Jones: "Those are the people I represent; I did it on their behalf."
The Doctor: "And I should have stopped you."
Harriet Jones: "And what does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?"
The Doctor: "Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones! 'Cause I'm a completely new man!
I could bring down your government with a single word."
Harriet Jones: "You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think
you're quite capable of that."
The Doctor: "No, you're right, not a single word... Just six."
Harriet Jones: "I don't think so."
The Doctor: "Six words."
Harriet Jones: "Stop it!"
The Doctor: "Six."
(walks over to Alex, removes his earpiece and whispers the six words to him)
The Doctor: "Don't you think she looks tired?"
(the Doctor walks off with Rose, Jackie and Mickey as Jones runs back to Alex)
Harriet Jones: "What did he say?"
Alex: "Umm, well, nothing really."
Harriet Jones: "What did he say?!"
Alex: (flustered) "I-I-nothing, I don't know."
Harriet Jones: "Doctor! Doctor, what did you, what was tha-- what did he say; wh
at did you say, Doctor?! Doctor?! ... (whispered) I'm sorry."
(Alex walks off and Jones is left alone in the car park)
Harriet Jones, punished for attempting to justify the use of Torchwood's weapon
to the Tenth Doctor, The Christmas Invasion
(The Doctor had intended to land in 1979's Sheffield and exits the TARDIS to fin
d armed men on horseback, all aiming their pistols at him and Rose)
The Doctor: "1879... same difference."
Captain Reynolds: "You will explain your presence... and the nakedness of this g
irl."
The Doctor: (adopting a Scottish accent) "Are we in Scotland?"
Captain Reynolds: "How can you be ignorant of that?"
The Doctor: "Oh, I'm-I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this wee naked ch
ild over hill and over dale. Ain't that right, ya... tim'rous beastie?"
Rose: "Uh-uh... och aye, I've been oot and aboot--"
The Doctor: (quietly to Rose in normal voice) "No, don't do that."
Rose: "Hoots mon!"
The Doctor (still quiet) "No, really don't. Really."
The Doctor, Rose and Captain Reynolds, Tooth & Claw
(After Mickey screams when finding a cupboard full of shrink wrapped rats)
The Doctor: "And you decided to scream?"
Mickey: "It took me by surprise!"
The Doctor: "Like a little girl?"
Mickey: "It was dark! I was covered in rats!"
The Doctor: "Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails; frilly skirt."
The Doctor and Mickey, School Reunion
Sarah Jane: "I saw things you wouldn't believe!"
Rose: "Try me."
Sarah Jane: "Mummies."
Rose: "I've met ghosts."
Sarah Jane: "Robots. Lots of robots."
Rose: "Slitheen. In Downing Street."
Sarah Jane: "Daleks!"
Rose: "Met the Emperor."
Sarah Jane: "Anti-matter monsters!"
Rose: "Gas-masked zombies!"
Sarah Jane: "Real living dinosaurs!"

Rose: "Real living werewolf!"

Sarah Jane: "The... Loch Ness.. Monster!"
(beat)
Rose: "Seriously?"
Sarah Jane Smith and Rose, School Reunion
(K-9 is fighting off the Krillitanes as the others escape)
K-9: "Suggest you assume running mode, Master!"
K-9, School Reunion
K-9: "Maximum defence mode!"
Finch: (to Krillitanes) "Ignore the shooty dog thing!"
K-9 and Finch, School Reunion
(K-9 is about to sacrifice himself in order to destroy the Krillitanes)
The Doctor: "You good dog."
K-9: "Affirmative."
The Doctor and K-9, School Reuion
(After K-9 shoots a barrel full of toxic Krillitane oil)
Finch: "You bad dog..."
K-9: "Affirmative."
Finch and K-9, School Reunion
Madame de Pompadour: "Oh, this is my lover, the King of France."
The Doctor: "Yeah? Well I'm the lord of time."
Reinette and The Doctor, The Girl In The Fireplace
Rose: "What have you been doing; where have you been?!"
The Doctor: "Well... among other things, I think I invented the banana daiquiri
a couple of centuries early. D'you know, they'd never even seen a banana before;
always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good."
The Doctor, seemingly drunk, stumbling in on Rose and Mickey with the clockwork
robots, The Girl In The Fireplace
(The Doctor has previously found a horse on a 51st-century spaceship)
The Doctor: "Rose, get Mickey and Arthur and get out of here!"
Rose: "Arthur?"
The Doctor: "Good name for a horse."
Rose: "No, you're not keeping the horse!"
The Doctor: "I let you keep Mickey!"
The Doctor and Rose, The Girl In The Fireplace
The Doctor: "We surrender! There's no need to damage us; we're good stock. We v
olunteer for the upgrade programme. Take us to be processed."
Cyberman: "You are rogue elements."
The Doctor: "But we surrender."
Cyberman: "You are incomptabile."
The Doctor: (more angry) "But this is a surrender!"
Cyberman: "You will be deleted."
The Doctor: "But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!"
Cyberman: "You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish
under maximum deletion. Delete, delete, delete, delete!"
The Doctor and a Cyberman, Rise of the Cybermen
Lumic: "My everlasting children. Tell me, how does it feel?"
Cyberman: "We feel nothing."
Lumic: "But in your minds, what do you think?"
Cyberman: "We think the same. We are uniform."
Lumic: "But you think of what?"
Cyberman: "We think of the humans. We think of their difference and their pain.
They suffer in the skin. They must be upgraded."
John Lumic and a Cyberman, Age of Steel
Lumic: "Help me!"
Cyberman: "You are in pain. We can remove pain forever."
Lumic: "No! Not yet! I'm not ready."
Cyberman: "We will give you immortality."
Lumic: "I've told you, I will upgrade only with my last breath."
Cyberman: "Then breathe no more."

Lumic: "No! No! I command you! No!"

John Lumic and a Cyberman, Age of Steel
Cyberman: "You are Peter Tyler. Confirm? You are Peter Tyler."
Pete: "Confirm."
Cyberman: "I recognise you. I went first. My name was Jacqueline Tyler."
Rose: "No!"
Pete: "What?"
Cyberman: "They are unprogrammed. Restrain."
Pete: "You're not her! You're not my Jackie!"
Pete, Rose and the Cyberman created from Jackie Tyler, Age of Steel
Cyberman: "Why am I cold?"
Mrs. Moore: "Oh my God it's alive! It can feel."
The Doctor: "We broke the inhibitor. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
Cyberman: "Why so cold?"
The Doctor: "Can you remember your name?"
Cyberman: "Sally. Sally Phelan."
Mrs. Moore: "You're a woman?"
Sally: "Where's Gareth?"
Mrs. Moore: "Who's Gareth?"
Sally: "He can't see me. It's unlucky - the night before."
Mrs. Moore: "You're getting married?"
Sally: "I'm cold. I'm so cold."
The Doctor: "It's alright. You sleep now Sally. Just go to sleep."
Mrs. Moore, The Doctor and a Cyberman (Sally), Age of Steel
The Doctor: "And where is he? The famous Mr. Lumic? Don't we get the chance to
meet our lord and master?"
Cyberman: "He has been upgraded."
The Doctor: "So he's just like you?"
Cyberman: "He is superior. The Lumic unit has been designated Cyber Controller."
(A door slides open and a large chair made up of a mass of wires rolls forward.
The Cyberman seated on it is connected to several wires. His eyes are illuminate
d and his brain is visible through his cranium.)
Cyber Controller: "This is the age of steel and I am its creator."
The Doctor, a Cyberman and the Cyber Controller, Age of Steel
The Doctor: "Mr. Lumic, I think that's a vote for free will."
Cyber Controller: "I have factories waiting on seven continents. If the EarPods
have failed, then the Cybermen will take humanity by force. London has fallen; s
o shall the world."
The Doctor and the Cyber Controller after the citizens of London begin to flee
from the Cybermen and the conversion facilities, Age of Steel
Cyber Controller: "What is your name?"
The Doctor: "I'm the Doctor."
Cyber Controller: "A redundant title. Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sic
ken."
The Doctor and the Cyber Controller, Age of Steel
Rose: "You're alive!... Oh Mum, you're alive!"
Jackie: "Well I was the last time I looked. What is it, what's happened sweethea
rt? What's wrong? Where did you go?"
The Doctor: "Far away. That was... far away."
Jackie: "Where's Mickey?"
The Doctor: "He's gone home."
Rose, Jackie, and the Doctor after Rose and the Doctor return to the "regular"
universe, Age of Steel
Eddie Connolly: "I am talking!!"
The Doctor: "AND I'M NOT LISTENING!!!"
The abusive Eddie Connolly and the Doctor, The Idiot's Lantern
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On the programme
"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star

Trek can turn your brains to pure of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction
series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all i
n a bunch to back it up!"
Harlan Ellison, date uncertain.
The TV Movie (1996)
"It's incoherent crap."
Former script editor of Doctor Who, Terrance Dicks to BBC executive after previ
ew.
"I thought he was full of heart. Full of warmth. I thought he was charismatic,
funny, gentle and, and, and there were certain moments in that (TVM) that were s
ome of the best moments of Doctor Who ever made."
Executive Producer and writer Russell T. Davies on The 8th Doctor and Doctor Wh
o, in Doctor Who: A New Dimension
The Time War (2005)
"The fact is the Time Lords did start it, all the way back in Genesis of the Da
leks"
Director Russell T. Davies, in Doctor Who Confidential
"Although Rose doesn't know what this cockney dude has to do with the sudden ra
sh of killer mannequins"
TV Guide (US Edition) on plainly northern Doctor Christopher Eccleston March 20
06.
The Doctor: What the hell are you here for?
Dalek: I am waiting for orders.
The Doctor: What does that mean?
Dalek: I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders.
The Doctor: Well you're never gonna get them. Not ever.
Dalek: I demand orders!
The Doctor: They're never gonna come! Your race is dead. You all burned all of you
. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second.
Dalek: You lie!
The Doctor: I watched it happen. I made it happen.
Dalek: You destroyed us?
The Doctor: I had no choice.
Dalek: And what of the Time Lords?
The Doctor: Dead. They burned with you. The end of the last great Time War. Ever
yone lost.
Dalek: And the coward survived.

The House: Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.

The Doctor: Fear me. I've killed all of them.
The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not,
out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.