Doctor Who Quotes


The Doctor: The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots. 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 stop them from obeying the original order. [stops computer from destroying Earth]
The Doctor: But not impossible.

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The Doctor: There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

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The Doctor: This may be the greatest miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this miserable planet.

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The Doctor: Time and tide melts the snowman.

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The Doctor: To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.

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The Doctor: Well, you'd better introduce me.
Romana: As what?
The Doctor: Oh, I don't know, a wise and wonderful person who wants to help. Don't exaggerate.

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The Doctor: We're all basically primeval slime with ideas above its station.

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The Doctor: What is the one thing evil cannot face, not ever?
Tegan: What?
The Doctor: Itself.

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The Doctor: You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle.

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The Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter 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 need altering.

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The Doctor: You remember the Mona Lisa? That dreadful woman with no eyebrows who wouldn't sit still?

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The Doctor: You see, if you take any progressive series, it can be converted into binary notation. Now, if you take the sum of the integrants and express the result as a power series, then the indices show the basic binary blocks, only I wouldn't do it if I were you.

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The Doctor: You're a beautiful woman, probably.

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The Doctor: You're a classic example of the inverse relationship bewteen the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

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The Doctor: You're working for a madman, you know.
Scorby: He pays well.

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The Fourth Doctor: [to Leela after she almost knifes him] It's a good thing your tribe never invented firearms... they'd've woken with a start one morning and wiped themselves out.

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The Fourth Doctor: Oh, don't listen to me... I never do.

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The Fourth Doctor: Would you mind not standing on me, my hat's on fire.

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Cyberleader: Cybermen can survive more efficiently than animal organisms. That is why we will rule the galaxy.

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Striker: You are a Time Lord, a lord of Time. Are there Lords in such a small domain?

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Ohica: You feign ignorance, Time Lord?
The Doctor: Please, just call me Doctor. I hate all this bowing and scraping.

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Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown: Is there any intelligent life on this planet?
The Doctor: Apart from me, you mean?

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Lord Palmerdale: Are you in charge here?
The Doctor: No, but I'm full of ideas.

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Omega: Absolute power is absolute freedom.

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Omega: My brothers became Time Lords, while I was abandoned and forgotten.
The Doctor: No, not forgotten. All my life I've known of you, and cherished you as our greatest hero.
Omega: A hero? [shouts]
Omega: I should have been a God!

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Poul: Somebody interrupted Chubb - with both hands.

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Brigadier: [ordering his men to fire on a monster] Chap with the wings - five rounds, rapid.

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Brigadier: A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next.

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Brigadier: As long as he does the job, he can wear what face he likes.

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Brigadier: I never thought I'd have to fire in anger at a dratted caterpillar.

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