Doctor Who Quotes


The Doctor: [after being shoved by Hermann the butler] I say, what a wonderful butler, he's so violent.

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The Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

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The Doctor: Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered.

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The Doctor: As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.

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The Doctor: Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Incredible power, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera.

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The Doctor: Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again.

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The Doctor: Don't worry. I always leave things until the last moment.

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The Doctor: Gods don't use transceivers.

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The Doctor: He could end up anywhere except where he wants to go.
Tegan: Rather like the Tardis, really.

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The Doctor: He's gone to see a man about a god.

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The Doctor: I never carry weapons. If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you. Nine times out of ten.

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The Doctor: I thought I recognized the stars.
Sarah: You've been here before?
The Doctor: I was born in these parts.
Sarah: Near here?
The Doctor: Well, within a couple of billion miles, yes.

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The Doctor: I wonder...
Leela: What?
The Doctor: Shh. I'm wondering.

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The Doctor: I'm sorry to tell you that Romana can look after herself. We're Time Lords. Not like those innocents on Atrios, you know. Time Lords, sent by the Guardian to recover the Key to Time.
The Shadow: I know who you are, Doctor, I have always known. I have been waiting for you. I too serve a Guardian, a Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one you serve. The Black Guardian - he who walks in darkness. And you are in the valley of the Shadow!

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The Doctor: It's part of a Time Lord's job to insist on justice for all species.

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The Doctor: It's very very old, perhaps even older.

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The Doctor: I've got a pistol.
Sarah: But you'd never use it.
The Doctor: True. But they don't know that, do they?

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The Doctor: Just be your natural horrid self.

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The Doctor: Listen, there are no measurements in infinity. You humans have got such limited little minds. I don't know why I like you so much.
Sarah: Because you have such good taste.
The Doctor: That's true. That's very true.

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The Doctor: Marshal, you are quite mad.
Marshal: Only if I lose.

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The Doctor: No. Impossible. I'm fully booked for the next two centuries.

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The Doctor: Now drop your weapons or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby.
Warrior: Kill him, then.
The Doctor: What?
Warrior: Kill him, then.
The Doctor: I don't take orders from anyone. [Eats jelly baby]
The Doctor: Take me to your leader.

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The Doctor: Once upon a time there were three sisters, and they lived in the bottom of a treacle well. Their names were Olga, Marsha and Irene... Are you listening, Tillie? I feel disorientated.
Sarah: This is the disorientation centre.
The Doctor: That makes sense.

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The Doctor: One good, solid hope's worth a cartload of certainty.

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The Doctor: One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. One grows tired of almost everything, Castellan, except power.

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The Doctor: Superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just do not go together.

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The Doctor: Terran insects. Aerodynamically impossible for them to fly, but they do it. I'm rather fond of bumblebees.

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The Doctor: That was simply transmigration of object. There's a great deal of difference between that and pure science, you know.

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The Doctor: That's the trouble with antimatter. You can see the effect but not the cause. It's like being punched on the nose by the invisible man.

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The Doctor: The best way to find out where you are from is find out where you are going and work backwards.

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