The Official Quotable Doctor Who

‘I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m nine hundred and three years old. And I’m the man that’s going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?’

‘Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then I find a new name, because I won’t be the Doctor any more.’

You know how it is. You put things off for a day, next thing you know it’s a hundred years later.

LOGIN: A little patience goes a long way.
THE DOCTOR: Yes. Too much patience goes absolutely nowhere.

CLARA: OK. When are you going to explain to me what the hell is going on?
THE DOCTOR: Breakfast.
CLARA: What? I’m not waiting for breakfast.
THE DOCTOR: It’s a time machine. You never have to wait for breakfast.

ROMANA: Where are we going?
THE DOCTOR: Are you talking philosophically or geographically?
ROMANA: Philosophically.
THE DOCTOR: Then we’re going to lunch.

If heroes don’t exist, it is necessary to invent them. Good for public morale.

I hear they rot your brains. Rot them into soup. And your brain comes pouring out of your ears. That’s what television does.

THE DOCTOR: What do you think of that now, eh? A Viking helmet.
STEVEN: Oh, maybe.
THE DOCTOR: What do you mean, maybe? What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow?

CRAIG: I’m not much of a traveller.
THE DOCTOR: I can tell from your sofa.
CRAIG: My sofa?
THE DOCTOR: You’re starting to look like it.