Doctor Who quotes %% 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 prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, my dear. Goodbye, Susan. -- Doctor, DALEK INVASION OF EARTH %% We are all of us the victims of a higher power--a power more evil and more terrible than the human brain can imagine. Theodore Maxtible, EVIL OF THE DALEKS %% It's rather a pity in a way. Now the universe is down to 699 wonders. -- Doctor, DEATH TO THE DALEKS %% You are men without courage. You have lost your right to survive. -- Davros, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS %% Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. -- Doctor, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS %% "Well, why don't you just pander to my medieval, old-fashioned supersititions and take them for me. After all, it would save me having to put make-up on and a mask and dance around a fire in order to get rid of the evil spirits." -- Barbara, THE WEB PLANET %% "And then I got rescued by this bowl!" -- Jo, PLANET OF THE DALEKS %% "I got lost in the time vortex. The TARDIS brought me home." -- Doctor (Pertwee), PLANET OF THE SPIDERS %% "My biorhythms must be at an all-time low." -- Doctor (Tom Baker), THE PIRATE PLANET %% "Won't you show mercy to your own -- ?" -- Master, PLANET OF FIRE %% "Stone trees are all very well, but in the next forest I walk through, I want them all to be made of wood." -- Barbara, THE DALEKS %% "They, I mean the Daleks, tell me they've always been defeated by human beings. . . Possibly because of some factor possessed by human beings that is absent in the Daleks. Perhaps they want to find out what it is and transplant it into their own race." -- Theodore Maxtible, THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS %% "I love mucking about in boats" -- Baker, THE TALONS OF WENG CHIANG %% "My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere, particularly not forthwith." -- Third Doctor, DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS %% "I can also withstand considerably more G-force than most people, even though I do say so myself." -- Third Doctor, AMBASSADORS OF DEATH %% "Even if you had the guts, you'd only be doing me a favor." -- Greg Sutton (the oil man), INFERNO %% "Careful, careful--I might explode!" -- Doctor, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN %% "Too many people have died for you to play the fool." -- Lt. Scott, EARTHSHOCK %% "I might be any number of things, young lady. As it happens, I am the Doctor." -- Hartnell Doctor, THE FIVE DOCTORS %% "And while we're about it, who is this terrible Zodin?" -- Peri, ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN %% "Doctor supports combination gambit." -- Doctor, SILVER NEMESIS %% "Bring out your dead." -- Ian, DALEK INVASION OF EARTH %% "You still making a nonsense of it, Doctor, in your, what was it called--TARDIS?" -- Lethbridge-Stewart, THE INVASION %% Brig: How nice to see you again, Doctor. Dr: It's Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. Brig: Brigadier now, I've gone up in the world. Jamie: Of course, the Yetis, we met you in the-- Brig: That's right, the criminy(?) in the underground. Must be four years ago now. Jamie: How long, it seems like only a couple of weeks ago! Doctor: I've told you over and over again, Jamie, time is relative. Brig: You still making a nonsense of it, Doctor, in your, what was it called, TARDIS? Doctor: Yes, we're still traveling, yes. Brig: Mrs. Travers told me all about it. It's, uh well, it's to say the least, an unbelievable machine. Doctor: Any more unbelievable than the Yetis? Brig: No, true. I'm not quite sure I'm as much of a skeptic as I was since that little escapade. %% "Do you know yesterday I saw a fox in Picadilly?" -- Mike Yates, INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS %% "This isn't Earth. This isn't real wood, it's some kind of artificial material, like plastic. These aren't real trees, and you're not the real Sarah!" -- Doctor 4, THE ANDROID INVASION %% "You could just open the door." -- Cardinal Borusa, INVASION OF TIME %% Varsh: That's not Alzarius. Romana: No, it's still Gallifrey. If the Doctor's theory's right we'll need a local image translator to see what's out there. Adric: Or we could just look out through the door. -- Full Circle %% "But you are one of us--you look like us, you sound like us." -- Barbara, AN UNEARTHLY CHILD %% "Daleks don't like stairs." -- Ian, THE CHASE %% "You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets." -- Lethbridge-Stewart, ROBOT %% "The green button, gentlemen!" -- Doctor 4, FULL CIRCLE %% "I'm not that easy to get rid of." -- Turlough, MAWDRYN UNDEAD %% a. "Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority." %% b. "The Gordian knot couldn't be untied either." %% a. "Allow me to congratulate you sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered." -- Pertwee Doctor, FRONTIER IN SPACE %% b. "An Emperor who does not rule deposes himself." -- Draconian Emperor, FRONTIER IN SPACE %% a. "Judging by the size of its mandibles, this chap doesn't live on plankton." -- Harry Sullivan, ARK IN SPACE %% b. "But I am here! I am Dune!" -- Noah, ARK IN SPACE %% a. "E-Space is another universe. There isn't a taxi service, goes back and forth." -- Doctor, EARTHSHOCK %% b. "What is that? I know that object!" -- Cyberleader, EARTHSHOCK %% a. "If ever you had to kill someone, could you do it?" -- Turlough, TERMINUS %% b. "Doctor, say you're pleased to see her." -- Nyssa, TERMINUS %% a. "Love? What is love? I want existence." -- Marriner, Enlightenment %% b. "You are a Time Lord, a Lord of Time. Are there Lords in such a small domain?" -- Captain Striker, Enlightenment %% "That was simply transmigration of object. There's a great deal of difference between that and pure science, you know." -- Third Doctor, AMBASSADORS OF DEATH "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 a hundred million centuries." -- Prof. Clifford Jones, THE GREEN DEATH %% "I just heard your wind effect gnashing its teeth." -- Sarah Jane, DEATH TO THE DALEKS %% "Somebody interrupted Chubb--with both hands!" -- Poul, ROBOTS OF DEATH %% "It's a very rare and precious Chinese puzzle box. You won't be able to open it, so put it down." -- Countess Scarlioni, CITY OF DEATH %% "In the last decade, we've been sending probes deeper and deeper into space. We've drawn attention to ourselves, Miss Shaw." -- Lethbridge-Stewart, SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE %% "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish--sometimes." -- Dr. Tom Baker, ROBOT %% "The books are old, but they chronicle the rise of Castrovalva up to the present day." -- Shardovan, CASTROVALVA %% "Alas, poor Peri, not for us the pleasures of Phaestor 95 . . . I am a living peril to the universe. If this poor hive is to be cleansed, there's only one recourse--contemplation, self-abnegation in some hellish wilderness--ten days, ten years, a thousand years, of what consequence is time to me? I shall become a hermit, and you, child, shall be my disciple." -- Dr. Colin Baker, THE TWIN DILEMMA %% "You don't understand regeneration, Mel. It's a lottery, and I've drawn the short plank." -- Dr. McCoy, TIME AND THE RANI %% "1980, Sarah, if you want to get off." -- Dr. Tom Baker, PYRAMIDS OF MARS %% "Two peas in a pod! Positively two peas in a pod." -- Lady Cranleigh, BLACK ORCHID %% "Anythin's better than your yammerin'." -- Hawke, DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN %% "Good place to put things--cellars." -- Dr. McCoy, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS %% "Time--the beginning of all beginnings. Two forces, only good and evil, then chaos. Time is born, matter, space. The universe cries out like a newborn. The forces shatter as the universe explodes outwards. Only echoes remain, and yet somehow--somehow, the evil force survives, an intelligence--pure evil." -- Dr. McCoy, CURSE OF FENRIC %% "I'm not going to sit here like a spare -- like a spare lemon waiting for the squeezer." -- Lethbridge-Stewart, THE DAEMONS %% "What a magnificent head!" -- Dr. Mehendri Solon, BRAIN OF MORBIUS %% "Maybe I am getting too young for this sort of thing." -- Tom Baker, INVASION OF TIME %% "I may choose instruments somewhat sharper than words." -- Scaroth (as Scarlioni), CITY OF DEATH %% "Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead." -- Colin Baker, ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN %% "No, Alydon. And you must throw off these suspicions. They're based on fear. And fear breeds hatred and war. I shall speak to them peacefully. They'll see that I'm unarmed. There's no better argument against war than that." -- Temmosus, THE DEAD PLANET (The Daleks) %% "And fear breeds hatred, your majesty. Fear is the greatest enemy of them all, for fear leads us to war." -- 3rd Doctor, FRONTIER IN SPACE %% a. "Yes, well, according to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly." -- 3rd Doctor, THE DAEMONS %% "Terran insects. Aerodynamically impossible for them to fly, but they do it. I'm rather fond of bumblebees." -- 4th Doctor, ROBOTS OF DEATH %% "Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good." -- Sutekh, PYRAMIDS OF MARS %% "The Doctor's good is my evil." - The Black Guardian, MAWDRYN UNDEAD %% "I suppose the best way to find out where you've come from is to find out where you're going, and then work backwards." -- 4th Doctor, CITY OF DEATH %% "Sometimes it's easier to look for the way in, and then work backwards." -- 5th Doctor, FRONTIOS %% "Why don't you do it, then? Look me in the eye. Pull the trigger. End my life." -- 7th Doctor, THE HAPPINESS PATROL %% "Come, then. Look me in the eye. End my life." -- Mordred, BATTLEFIELD %% "We had time taken away from us, and now it's been given back to us because it's running out." -- Barbara, EDGE OF DESTRUCTION %% "Trafalgar Square, my foot! Not a pigeon in sight." -- Sarah, THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT %% "Positive Odin." -- Charles Cranleigh, BLACK ORCHID %% "I'm not a demon for nothing." -- Doctor 5, THE KING'S DEMONS %% "Insight is often mistaken for madness." -- Sir George Hutchinson, THE AWAKENING %% "I haven't got time to chat to undersecretaries, permanent or otherwise." -- Pertwee, DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS %% "But we're still heading for the biggest bang in history." -- Sarah Jane Smith, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN %% "Could anyone pass the sodium chloride, please?" -- Adric, FOUR TO DOOMSDAY %% "Thievery is a matter of stealth, not hearty greetings." -- Richard Mace, THE VISITATION %% "Look at my pustules grow!" -- Captain Slarn, SLIPBACK %% "When the whispering starts--it's death, I tell you. Death!" -- Darrius, THE KEYS OF MARINUS %% "And what is your bureau doing about bonsai?" -- Harrison Chase, SEEDS OF DOOM %% "Well, to be fair I did have a couple of gadgets he probably didn't, like a teaspoon and an open mind." -- Doctor, CREATURE FROM THE PIT %% "First things first, but not necessarily in that order." -- Doctor, MEGLOS %% "I don't think you'll find enjoyment's on the agenda." -- Security Officer Rudge, TERROR OF THE VERVOIDS %% "I thought you didn't want to know about that sort of thing." -- Captain Dent, COLONY IN SPACE %% "I seem to be stuck up here." -- Hartnell, THE THREE DOCTORS %% "One for casual, one for best." -- Romana, DESTINY OF THE DALEKS %% "I have the Loyhargil. Nothing can stop me now." -- The Rani, TIME AND THE RANI %% "Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another." -- 7th Doctor, GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY %% "Saward scandal coverage." -- Gordon Hogenson, Doctor Who Bulletin #44, p. 12 (June '87) %% "For such a little woman your mouth is too big!" -- Arturo Villa (the Mexican leader), THE WAR GAMES %% "I had to face my fear. That was more important than just going on living." -- Jon Pertwee's Doctor, PLANET OF THE SPIDERS %% "Fold back the Omega configuration." -- Tom Baker's Doctor, LOGOPOLIS %% "You have the mouth of a prattling jackanapes, but your eyes, they tell a different story." -- Sharaz Jek, CAVES OF ANDRONZANI %% "There is nothing purer and more unsullied, madam, than the desire for revenge, but if you follow the metaphor, I've thrown a pebble into the water perhaps killing two birds with one stone and causing ripples that'll rock the High Council to its foundations. What more could a renegade wish for?" -- The Master, THE ULTIMATE FOE %% . "Resistance is useless." A Dalek, Dalek Invasion of Earth or The Doctor, Dalek Invasion of Earth %% "Resistance is useless. Stand still." The Doctor, The Web Planet %% "All resistance is useless." Cyberleader, The Moonbase %% "Resistance is useless." Doctor, Invasion of Time or Astra, The Armageddon Factor %% "Besides, resistance would be useless." Ivo's wife, State of Decay %% "Resistance is futile." First Mate, Enlightenment %% "It is useless to resist." -- A Sensorite, The Sensorites %% "Resistance is useless. Submit your will to the sake of the greater good. It has been decided." -- The Master of the Land of Fiction, The Mind Robber "Your resistance is useless. We control the Ark." -- Noah (in Wirrn form), Ark in Space %% "Resistance is ill-advisable." -- Styggron, The Android Invasion %% "This planet is dead--totally dead." Doctor, The Dead Planet (The Daleks) %% "Advance and attack! Attack and destroy! Destroy and rejoice!" Daleks, The Chase %% "I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing." Doctor, Destiny of the Daleks %% "I am not here as your prisoner, Davros, but as your executioner." Doctor, Resurrection of the Daleks %% "That's the point, Group Captain. It isn't even remotely human." Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks %% "It is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved with things." Doctor, The War Games %% "When everything is new, can anything be a surprise?" Cho-Je, Planet of the Spiders %% "The universe long ago passed the point of total collapse." Monitor, Logopolis %% "More of a tennis player than a cricketer." Doctor, Caves of Androzani %% "You are elevating futility to a high art. There is nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality." Valeyard, The Ultimate Foe %% "I fooled them all. I am the Master." Doctor, The Space Museum %% "I imagine you have orders to destroy me." Doctor, Wheel in Space %% "I can hardly keep me eyes open." Liz, Spearhead from Space %% "How very relaxed of him." Master, Frontier in Space %% "It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." Doctor, Ark in Space %% "That is the dematerializing control, and that over yonder is the horizontal hold; up there is the scanner, those are the doors, and that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy. Now please stop bothering me." Doctor, The Time Meddler %% "Galactic ticket inspectors? Oh, I could murder a cup of tea." Sarah, The Time Warrior %% "Call yourself a Time Lord? A broken clock keeps better time than you do. At least it's accurate twice a day, which is more than you ever are." Tegan, The Visitation %% "Arise, Sir Doctor." Kamelion, King's Demons %% "It's probably treason! I'm too young to go to the Tower." Ace, Silver Nemesis stories with flashbacks %% Nyssa: "What is this mission of yours, father? You're so changed by it. [You look younger, but so cold.]" Master: "Logopolis is a cold place, a cold high place looking over the universe." Logopolis %% "The enemy's outside, Mister. You're pointing your gun in the wrong direction." Captain Briggs, Earthshock %% Brigadier: "[Someone just walked over my grave.]" Dr: "Perhaps it was a Yeti?" Mawdryn Undead %% "A man is the sum of his memories, you know--a Time Lord even moreso." Doctor, The Five Doctors %% "It's, uh, it's strange. I left Gallifrey for similar reasons. I'd grown tired of their lifestyle. [ It seems I must mend my ways.]" Doctor, Resurrection of the Daleks %% "No, impossible in this temperature. Besides, it's too warm." Doctor, Keys of Marinus %% "To the unbeliever, all signs are as dust in the wind." Hepesh, Curse of Peldon %% "Uh, Count, far be it from me to query this lady's competence as a doctor, but where I come from, you don't cut off a patient's head if you wish to cure their ankle." Romana, Androids of Tara %% "They say the atmosphere there was so full of goodness that evil just shriveled up and died. Maybe that's why I never went there." Doctor, Keeper of Traken %% "You were expecting someone else?" Sixth Doctor, Caves of Androzani %% "Who put these under the phone?" Forester, Planet of Giants %% "Circular logic will only make you dizzy." Peri, The Two Doctors %% "I like women with fire in their bellies." Kane, Dragonfire %% "I don't believe you've met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification, incineration, carbonization, and inflammation." Doctor, The Happiness Patrol %% "Things are still imperfect." Doctor, Silver Nemesis %% "I admit I had a great struggle with me conscience. Fortunately, I won." Garron, The Ribos Operation %% "Destroy everything!" Pirate Captain, The Pirate Planet %% Amelia Rumford: "Can I ask you a personal question?" Doctor: "Well, I don't see how I can stop you asking." Rumford: ["Are you from outer space?"] Doctor: "No, I'm more from what you would call inner time." Stones of Blood %% "Grendel! [You forgot your hat!]" Doctor, Androids of Tara %% "Yes, yes, I suppose you could say that I like it." Guardian, The Armageddon Factor %% "What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow?" Doctor, The Time Meddler %% "A dream? Really, Doctor. [ You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next.]" Brigadier, The Time Monster %% "Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." Doctor, The Time Warrior %% "I've heard of a football team getting into a telephone kiosk, but this was ridiculous." Scobie, Time-Flight %% "The more I know me, the less I like me." Doctor, Time and the Rani %% "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 prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine." Doctor, Dalek Invasion of Earth %% "When the Time Lords find him, he'll wish you had killed him." War Lord, The War Games %% "[You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive.] Why else should I endure this pain? I must see the Doctor die in shame and dishonour. Yes--and I must destroy the Time Lords. Nothing else matters. Nothing." Master, The Deadly Assassin %% "I wish you'd stabilize your pedestrian infrastructure, President." Borusa, Invasion of Time %% "I've found it unwise to predict what the Doctor can or cannot do." Castellan, Arc of Infinity %% "A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about." Master, The Five Doctors %% "Don't you think you're being rather high-handed, young man? You thought you saw a young girl enter the yard. You imagine you heard her voice. You believe she might be hidden inside there. [ It's not very substantial, is it?]" Doctor, An Unearthly Child %% "Reincarnations can come out, but human beings can't go in." Doctor, The Aztecs %% Ian:[ "No ice, I'm afraid."] Barbara: "Oh, there's some in the fridge." The Romans %% "Doctor, we've got our clothes on!" Ian, The Space Museum %% "Sure seems a pity he bothered to have that tooth out." Doc Holliday, The Gunfighters %% ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ %% "We are on the brink of descruc- destruction." Doctor, Edge of Destruction %% "You are on the brink of destruction, Doctor." Gods of Ragnarok, Greatest Show in the Galaxy "It's almost too horrible to think about." Doctor, Ark in Space %% "I have a suspicion, but it's too horrible to think about." Doctor, State of Decay %% Sarah:[ "Oh, I must be mad. I'm sick of being cold and wet and hypnotized left, right, and center. I'm sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if I'm coming or going, or even being!"] Doctor: "Zues plug!" Sarah: ["Oh, I want a bath. I want my hair washed. I just want to feel human again."] Doctor: "Forget the Zues plug. I'll have the sonic screwdriver." Sarah: "And boy am I sick of that sonic screwdriver." -- Hand of Fear %% "Well, look at me. I'm old, lacking in vigor, my mind's in a turmoil. I no longer know if I'm coming, have gone, or even been. I'm falling to pieces; I no longer even have any clothes sense . . . Self-pity is all I have left." Doctor, The Twin Dilemma %% Turlough: "Time will tell." Doctor: "Yes, indeed. Aboard the TARDIS, it always does." Warriors of the Deep %% Ace: "Doctor, we did good, didn't we?" Doctor: "Perhaps. Time will tell. Always does." Remembrance of the Daleks %% "Oh, you're wrong. I have one more yet that will not fail-- my knowledge." Lady Peinforte, Silver Nemesis %% "You're wrong. The Doctor is not weaponless. He has the greatest weapon of all--knowledge." Lady Camilla, State of Decay %% "It depends on how you look at it--an idiot, or a saint." Dr. Summers, Mind of Evil "You're right, Jo. [There is magic in the world after all.]" Doctor, The Daemons %% "If the thraskin puts his fingers in his ears, it is polite to shout." Doctor, The Time Monster %% "You made us, Man of Evil, but we are free." Shardovan, Castrovalva %% "So typical of the Doctor's predeliction for the third rate." Master, Time-Flight %% "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 that power!" Davros, Genesis of the Daleks %% "The plants must win. [ It will be a new world, silent and beautiful.]" Harrison Chase, Seeds of Doom %% "Soon I shall join my ancestors. Already I can see them. They walk to greet me from the palace of jade. They are smiling and carry gifts of fruit and flowers. Now I cross the golden bridge of the gods." Li H'sen Chang, Talons of Weng-Chiang %% "One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. One grows tired of almost everything, Castellan, except power." Doctor, Invasion of Time %% "[We have the power to do anything we like. Absolute power over every particle in the universe, everything that has ever existed or ever will exist, as from this moment. Are you listening to me, Romana?]" Romana: "Yes, of course I am." Doctor: "[Because if you're not listening I can make you listen, because I can do anything. As from this moment there is no such thing as free will in the entire universe. There is only my will, because I possess the Key to Time.]" Doctor, The Armageddon Factor %% "Doctor Who is required." WOTAN, The War Machines %% "Oh no, now I've lost his face!" Doctor, The Mind Robber %% "Kitty, kitty, kitty. Come and get your lovely din-din." Sgt Benton, The Green Death %% "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 the views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." Doctor, Face of Evil %% "Remember me to Gallifrey." Drax, The Armageddon Factor %% "That's right, yes, you're going, you're gone for ages, already gone, you're still here, just arrived, haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time." Doctor, Dragonfire %% "I killed him, and he forgave me. Why did he have to be so nice about it?" Peri, Revelation of the Daleks %% "You know, Griffiths, when I look at you, I often wonder why your ancestors bothered to climb out of the primordial slime." Lytton, Attack of the Cybermen %% "I'll bombard this stinking planet until it is nothing but a smoking hole in space!" Graff Vynda-Ka, The Ribos Operation %% "The quotes are over, Doctor." Scorby, Seeds of Doom %%