"You won't convict me by using shock tactics."
"I require nothing so crude, my dear Doctor. All that will prove necessary is the truth."
The Doctor and the Valeyard, in "Mindwarp"
"What about your companion, Doctor?"
"Oh, Peri? Quite unsuitable: silly, female, flibbertigibbet... hopeless!"
Crozier and the Doctor, in "Mindwarp"
"His name is Dorf, and you are scum!"
"No, actually I'm known as the Doctor."
Yrcanos and the Doctor, in "Mindwarp"
Everyone has a "point" nowadays. I am a man of action, not reason!
Yrcanos, in "Mindwarp"
You think like a warrior but you do not act like one; it's most perplexing...
Yrcanos, to the Doctor, in "Mindwarp"
We shall release the slaves, and then on to death!
Yrcanos, in "Mindwarp"
I'm as truthful, honest, and about as boring as they come.
Mel, in "The Ultimate Foe"
Here the only logic is that there isn't any logic.
The Doctor, in "The Ultimate Foe"
It takes time, Doctor, but eventually you get there.
The Master, in "The Ultimate Foe"
In all my travellings through the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, 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, in "The Ultimate Foe"
I knew this was a mistake; my grip on reality's not too good at the best of times.
Glitz, in "The Ultimate Foe"
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 will rock the High Council to its foundations.
The Master, in "The Ultimate Foe"
This is a very odd waiting room. Where are the hopelessly out-of-date magazines?
The Doctor, standing in the middle of a desert, in "The Ultimate Foe"
Great cosmic protector of grafters and dissemblers, save me! Save meee!
Glitz, in "The Ultimate Foe"
You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept.
The Valeyard, in "The Ultimate Foe"
There are times in our relationship when I feel an interpreter wouldn't come amiss.
Mel, to the Doctor, in "The Ultimate Foe"
"It seems pretty far gone; need a genius to unravel it..."
"But Doctor, you're a genius!"
"Oh yes, I definitely remember that."
The amnesiac Doctor and the Rani, in "Time and the Rani"
I'm as fit as a trombone.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
A bad workman always blames his fools.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
... like a bull in a barber shop.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
You don't understand regeneration, Mel; it's a lottery, and I've drawn the short plank.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
The more I know me, the less I like me.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
"A little portentous, perhaps, Mel?"
<sotto voce> "'Pretentious' is the word."
The Doctor and the Rani, in "Time and the Rani"
Thank goodness in this regeneration I've regained my impeccable sense of haute couture.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
Absence makes the nose grow longer.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
More hasta, less vista.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
The proof of the pumpkin is in the squeezing.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
And I'm suffering from post-regeneration amnesia, as far as I can remember.
The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
"You must be the Doctor. I've met your companion Mel."
"Don't hold that against me."
Ikona and the Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
"Are these old ladies annoying you?"
"No!"
"Are you annoying these old ladies?"
Pex and Mel, in "Paradise Towers"
No cause for panic? Two of my next-door neighbours have just disappeared down the waste disposal chute!
Maddy, in "Paradise Towers"
"Don't you think it's wonderful to be somewhere calm and clean and relaxing?"
"It makes me nervous."
Mel and Pex, in "Paradise Towers"
"Fact is, I'm on a mission of highly philanthropic nature."
"What's that?"
"It means it's beneficial to mankind."
"I know what 'philanthropic' means! What's the mission?"
Glitz and Mel, in "Dragonfire"
"The money?"
"Gone the way of all organic matter I'm afraid; down the tubes."
Belász and Glitz, in "Dragonfire"
It was only a small explosion. They couldn't understand how blowing up the art room was a creative act.
Ace, in "Dragonfire"
Right, freeze! I mean, don't freeze, I mean stand still!
Ace, in "Dragonfire"
Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers 9 on the Richter Scale?
Ace, in "Dragonfire"
If he was a mortician, the corpses would keep their eyes open.
Glitz, in "Dragonfire"
"Excuse me, what's your attitude towards the nature of existence? For example, do you hold any strong theological opinions?"
"I think you'll find that most educated people regard mythical convictions as fundamentally animistic."
"I see; that's a very interesting concept."
"Personally, I find most experiences border on the existential."
The Doctor and a guard, in "Dragonfire"
"What are you doing here?"
"That's a very difficult question. Why is everyone around here so preoccupied with metaphysics?"
Belász and the Doctor, in "Dragonfire"
"I think she's going to kill us, Doctor."
"Ah, an existentialist!"
Glitz and the Doctor, in "Dragonfire"
Funny old business, time; it delights in frustrating your plans.
The Doctor, in "Dragonfire"
That's right, yes, you're going. Gone for ages. Already gone. Still here. Just arrived. Haven't even met you. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time.
The Doctor, in "Dragonfire"
Think about me, when you're living your life, one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the oldest traveller and his old police box, his days like crazy paving.
The Doctor, in "Dragonfire"
"Give me an A-flat."
"Eh?"
"No, A-flat."
The Doctor and Earl Sigma, in "The Happiness Patrol"
I don't believe you've met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification, incineration, carbonization, and inflammation.
The Doctor, in "The Happiness Patrol"
I'm finding this rather tiresome.
The Kandyman, in "The Happiness Patrol"
I can hear the sound of empires toppling.
The Doctor, in "The Happiness Patrol"
"What am I dealing with? Little green men?"
"No -- little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour."
Gilmore and the Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
Ace, give me some of that Nitro-9 you're not carrying!
The Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
You can judge a man by the quality of his enemies.
The Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.
The Doctor, on humans, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
Good place to put things, cellars.
The Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
I wasn't wandering the streets. I was merely contemplating certain local cartographic anomalies.
The Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"Small human female sighted on level three."
"Who're you calling 'small'?"
A Dalek and Ace, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"It's called that because Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension."
"Noticed that."
The Doctor and Ace, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"The Hand of Omega is a mythical name for Omega's remote stellar manipulator, a device used to customize stars with. And didn't we have trouble with the prototype..."
"'We'?"
"'They'."
The Doctor and Ace, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"The Daleks shall become Lords of Time! We shall become all--"
"--powerful! Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
Davros and the Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"Doctor, we did good, didn't we?"
"Perhaps. Time will tell. Always does."
Ace and the Doctor, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
"Who'd want to kill us?"
"There's an infinite number of possibilities."
Ace and the Doctor, in "Silver Nemesis"
"When I employed you, you led me to believe you were a hardened criminal."
"As My Lady knows, before I entered your service I was found guilty of a large number of offenses."
"Then have the courage of your convictions. Drink."
Lady Peinforte and Richard, in "Silver Nemesis"
"Was that a bomb?"
"No. That was the return to Earth of a comet called Nemesis that has been in orbit for exactly 350 years."
"You're amazing, Professor, being able to tell all that just from the noise."
Ace and the Doctor, in "Silver Nemesis"
"This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this sad planet."
"Well, nobody's perfect."
The Doctor and Ace, in "Silver Nemesis"
I'll tell you 350 years ago.
The Doctor, in "Silver Nemesis"
This is no madness; 'tis England.
Lady Peinforte, in "Silver Nemesis"
Come! the bear will not pursue us; such things happen only in the theatre.
Lady Peinforte, in "Silver Nemesis"
"I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, have you?"
"What if I had?"
"And naturally, you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you."
"Of course not. I'm a good girl and do what I'm told."
"Excellent. Blow up that vehicle."
The Doctor and Ace, in "Silver Nemesis"
Hello! I'm the Doctor. I believe you want to kill me.
The Doctor, in "Silver Nemesis"
"Yes, there was a Dorothea; she died in sixteen --"
"-- twenty-one. 'Twas a slow poison."
"This is unbelievable."
"Many found it so."
Mrs Remington and Lady Peinforte, in "Silver Nemesis"
It is only my present form. I have had others which would horrify you. I shall have them again.
Nemesis, in "Silver Nemesis"
I am whatever I am made to be. This time Lady Peinforte called me Nemesis, so I am retribution.
Nemesis, in "Silver Nemesis"
Things are still imperfect.
The Doctor, in "Silver Nemesis"
You're just an aging hippie, Professor.
Ace, to the Doctor, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
"Would you like to see the future?"
"Not just yet."
Morgana and the Doctor, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
"You have to hang up your travelling shoes and stop wandering sooner or later, don't you?"
"So I've been told. Personally, I just keep on wandering."
Morgana and the Doctor, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
#1 rule of the intergalactic explorer, Doctor: if you hear somebody talking about "good vibes" and "letting it all hang out", run a mile.
Captain Cook, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or another.
The Doctor, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
The point of archaeology is to carefully recover the past, not disintegrate it.
The Doctor, in "Battlefield"
"Sir, we don't know what the situation is here!"
"The situation, Lavel, is normal, and it doesn't get much worse than that. You know, I'm rather enjoying this."
Lavel and the Brigadier, in "Battlefield"
"Ace, I think it's time for plan B..."
"We run?"
"Yes! RUN!"
The Doctor and Ace, in "Battlefield"
Don't worry, Brigadier, people will be shooting at you soon enough...
The Doctor, in "Battlefield"
"What are you doing in the lake?"
"Drowning."
Brigadier Bambera and Ace, in "Battlefield"
"Ancelyn, in this world we have a great and honourable tradition of tactical withdrawal."
"Ah, you wish to run away. Well, there can be but thirty of them at the most."
Brigadier Bambera and Ancelyn, in "Battlefield"
"Ace, things may get dangerous, so I want you to have this."
"It looks like a piece of chalk."
"It is. I got it from the dart board."
The Doctor and Ace, in "Battlefield"
High drama is very similar to comedy; it's all a matter of timiiiiiiing...
The Doctor, in "Battlefield"