‘There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought.’
THE DOCTOR, THE MOONBASE
‘You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can’t spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That’s the curse of the Time Lords.’
THE DOCTOR, SCHOOL REUNION
‘They leave. Because they should. Or they find someone else. And some of them—some of them forget me. I suppose in the end . . . they break my heart.’
THE DOCTOR, THE NEXT DOCTOR
‘If one’s interest is held, loneliness does not exist.’
CAMECA, THE AZTECS
‘I can’t stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations. Terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls.’
THE DOCTOR, GHOST LIGHT
‘Children cry because they want attention, because they’re hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, it’s because they just can’t stop. Any parent knows that.’
THE DOCTOR, THE BEAST BELOW
‘I know this great song about this bloke and his girlfriend. She drops the ring he gives her on the railway track, and when she goes back to get it, she’s killed by the train and he’s really miserable for the rest of his life. Oh, it’s fantastic.’
ACE, THE HAPPINESS PATROL
SALLY: I love old things. They make me feel sad.
KATHY: What’s good about sad?
SALLY: It’s happy for deep people.
BLINK
‘Happiness is nothing unless it exists side by side with sadness.’
THE DOCTOR, THE HAPPINESS PATROL
‘You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.’
THE DOCTOR, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘Do you know any nice people? You know, ordinary people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the galaxy?’
ACE, SURVIVAL
LEELA: It is fitting to celebrate the death of an enemy.
THE DOCTOR: Not in my opinion.
HORROR OF FANG ROCK
‘If Hitler invaded hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil.’
WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTORY OF THE DALEKS
‘Am I addressing the Consciousness? . . . Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp-shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you . . . shunt off?’
THE DOCTOR, ROSE
THE DOCTOR: Mrs Gillyflower, you have no idea what you are dealing with. In the wrong hands, that venom could wipe out all life on this planet.
MRS GILLYFLOWER: Do you know what these are? The wrong hands.
THE CRIMSON HORROR
‘Only a fool defends his enemies.’
TEGANA, MARCO POLO
‘You know, my dear, there’s something very satisfying in destroying something that’s evil, don’t you think?’
THE DOCTOR, THE SAVAGES
‘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
‘Fear makes companions of all of us.’
THE DOCTOR, AN UNEARTHLY CHILD
‘Don’t run. Now, I know you’re scared, but never run when you’re scared.’
THE DOCTOR, LET’S KILL HITLER
HOUSE: Fear me. I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords.
THE DOCTOR: Fear me. I’ve killed all of them.
THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
‘Safe? No, of course you’re not safe. There’s about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world. But, if you want to pretend you’re safe, just so you can sleep at night? OK, you’re safe. But you’re not really.’
THE DOCTOR, DAY OF THE MOON
‘Some things are better left undone, and I have a feeling that this is one of them.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN
‘You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine and you think they’re probably lying to make you feel better? . . . Everything’s going to be fine.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ELEVENTH HOUR
‘You must throw off these suspicions. They’re based on fear, and fear breeds hatred and war.’
TEMMOSUS, THE DALEKS
RORY: I will take you apart cog by cog and melt you down when all this is over.
ROBOT 1: Oh, I’m so scared. Actually, I might be. A little bit of oil just came out.
DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP
‘One only harms that which one fears.’
MONARCH, FOUR TO DOOMSDAY
‘Fear itself is largely an illusion. And at my age, there’s little left to fear.’
THE DOCTOR, THE FIVE DOCTORS
‘It all just disappears, doesn’t it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘It is never easy to die.’
STAEL, IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL
‘All things pass away.’
CHO-JE, PLANET OF THE SPIDERS
‘Death is always more frightening when it strikes invisibly.’
THE MASTER, TERROR OF THE AUTONS
‘Since when did an undertaker keep office hours? The dead don’t die on schedule.’
CHARLES DICKENS, THE UNQUIET DEAD
‘The Church of the Papal Mainframe apologises for your death. The relevant afterlives have been notified.’
COLONEL ALBERO, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
RORY: What’s wrong with you? What’s she done to you?
THE DOCTOR: Poisoned me. But I’m fine. Well, no, I’m dying, but I’ve got a plan.
AMY: What plan?
THE DOCTOR: Not dying.
LET’S KILL HITLER
‘With one basic difference, the living are very much like the dead. Who was it said the living are just the dead on holiday?’
THE DOCTOR, DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
‘If Ben was killed by that damn blasted machine, there’ll be anger in his soul. And men that die like that don’t never rest easy.’
REUBEN, HORROR OF FANG ROCK
‘That is the smell of death, Peri. Ancient musk, heavy in the air. Fruit-soft flesh, peeling from white bones. The unholy, unburiable smell of Armageddon. Nothing quite so evocative as one’s sense of smell, is there?’
THE DOCTOR, THE TWO DOCTORS
‘I’ll expose him, ruin him, have him arrested, but I won’t be his executioner. No one has that right.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD
THE DOCTOR: You know, the window’s quite out of place. It’s not in character at all.
ROMANA: Will you stop babbling about the architecture? We’re having a serious conversation about death.
THE DOCTOR: Well, architecture’s quite a serious subject.
THE POWER OF KROLL
‘It doesn’t end there. That is how it all begins again, with a killing. It doesn’t end. That ends as it has always done, in chaos and despair. It ends as it begins, in the darkness. Is that what you all want?’
PANNA, KINDA
AMY: So, what’s wrong with me?
RIVER: Nothing. You’re fine.
THE DOCTOR: Everything. You’re dying.
RIVER: Doctor!
THE DOCTOR: Yes, you’re right. If we lie to her, she’ll get all better.
FLESH AND STONE
‘Welcome. You are unauthorised. Your death will now be implemented. Welcome. You will experience a tingling sensation and then death. Remain calm while your life is extracted.’
ANTIBODY, LET’S KILL HITLER
THE DOCTOR: I know a rogue when I see a rogue and I’ve no desire to die in the company of a rogue. Have you any desire to die in the company of a rogue?
ROMANA: I’d rather not die at all.
THE DOCTOR: I know that feeling.
THE POWER OF KROLL
THE DOCTOR: Alive isn’t sad.
IDRIS: It’s sad when it’s over.
THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
‘That’s the charm of a ghost story, isn’t it? Not the scares and chills, that’s just for children, but the hope of some contact with the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It’s the Creator’s greatest mystery that we’re allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait.’
QUEEN VICTORIA, TOOTH AND CLAW
DICKENS: This is precisely the sort of cheap mummery I strive to unmask. Séances? Nothing but luminous tambourines and a squeeze box concealed between the knees. This girl knows nothing.
THE DOCTOR: Now, don’t antagonise her. I love a happy medium.
THE UNQUIET DEAD
‘When it comes to death, quantity is so much more satisfying than quality.’
FENRIC, THE CURSE OF FENRIC
‘You’ve been trying to kill me for centuries, and here I am, dying of old age. If you want something done, do it yourself.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘The universe is at war, Doctor. Name one planet whose history is not littered with atrocities and ambition for empire. It is a universal way of life.’
DAVROS, RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS
‘You don’t beg for peace, Princess. You win it.’
MARSHAL, THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR
CONSTANTINE: Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither. But I’m still a doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Yeah. I know the feeling.
THE EMPTY CHILD
‘A warrior doesn’t talk, he acts.’
STAAL, THE POISON SKY
‘Sir, please do not noogie me during combat prep.’
STRAX, THE SNOWMEN
‘It is the right of every creature across the universe to survive, multiply and perpetuate its species. How else does the predator exist? We are all predators, Doctor. We kill, we devour, to live. Survival is all, you agree?’
THE NUCLEUS, THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
TEGANA: In battle all men face death.
THE DOCTOR: And few expect to meet it, hmmm?
MARCO POLO
‘A child is not a weapon!’
THE DOCTOR, A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR
‘It used to be the Tiberion Spiral Galaxy. A million star systems, a hundred million worlds, a billion trillion people. It’s not there any more. No more Tiberion Galaxy. No more Cybermen. It was effective . . . I feel like a monster sometimes . . . Because instead of mourning a billion trillion dead people, I just feel sorry for the poor blighter who had to press the button and blow it all up.’
PORRIDGE, NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
‘War, a game played by politicians. We were just pawns in the game, but the pawns are fighting together now.’
VERSHININ, THE CURSE OF FENRIC
‘War is another world. You cannot apply the politics of peace to what I did. To what any of us did.’
KAHLER-JEX, A TOWN CALLED MERCY
‘A heroic war cry to apparently peaceful ends is one of the greatest weapons a politician has.’
MAVIC CHEN, THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN
‘I killed, and I caused to have killed. I sent young men and women to their deaths, but here I am, still alive and it does tend to haunt you. Living, after so much of the other thing.’
PALMER, HIDE
‘It is not patriotism to lead people into a war they cannot win.’
SELRIS, THE KROTONS
‘Victory should be naked!’
JOSEPH GREEN, WORLD WAR THREE
‘You’re caught in an impasse of logic. You’ve discovered the recipe for everlasting peace. Congratulations. I’m terribly pleased.’
THE DOCTOR, DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
‘What better way to destroy your enemies than to let them destroy themselves.’
IXTA, THE AZTECS
THE DOCTOR: They keep coming back, don’t you see? Every time I negotiate, I try to understand. Well, not today. No. Today, I honour the victims first. His, the Master’s, the Daleks’, all the people who died because of my mercy!
AMY: You see, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long.
A TOWN CALLED MERCY
‘Strategy is worth a hundred lances.’
SALADIN, THE CRUSADE
‘You’re a man for talk, I can see that. You like a table and a ring of men – a parley here, arrangements there. But when you men of eloquence have stunned each other with your words, we – we the soldiers – have to face it out. On some half-started morning while you speakers lie abed, armies settle everything, giving sweat, sinew, bodies, aye, and life itself.’
LORD LEICESTER, THE CRUSADE
AMY: We come in peace!
RORY: When has that ever worked?
LET’S KILL HITLER
‘Bullets and bombs aren’t the answer to everything.’
THE DOCTOR, THE SEEDS OF DOOM
‘Weapons. Always useless in the end.’
THE DOCTOR, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘Pacifism only works when everybody feels the same.’
IAN, THE DALEKS
‘I don’t think that right is on anyone’s side in war, Miss Hardaker.’
REVEREND WAINWRIGHT, THE CURSE OF FENRIC
‘When you get back to Skaro, you’ll all be national heroes. Everybody will want to hear about your adventures . . . So be careful how you tell that story, will you? Don’t glamourise it. Don’t make war sound like an exciting and thrilling game . . . Tell them about the members of your mission that will not be returning . . . Tell them about the fear, otherwise your people might relish the idea of war. We don’t want that.’
THE DOCTOR, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
ACE: It’s a missile convoy.
THE DOCTOR: A nuclear missile convoy.
ACE: How do you know?
THE DOCTOR: It has a graveyard stench.
BATTLEFIELD
‘All over the world, fools are poised ready to let death fly. Machines of death, Morgaine, are screaming from above. A light, brighter than the sun. Not a war between armies nor a war between nations, but just death. Death gone mad. A child looks up at the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honour? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use? Tell me!’
THE DOCTOR, BATTLEFIELD
IZLYR: We reject violence, except in self-defence.
JO: What about Ssorg’s gun? This is supposed to be a peaceful mission.
IZLYR: Unfortunately, in order to preserve peace, it is necessary to survive.
THE CURSE OF PELADON
THE DOCTOR: Well quite frankly, Brigadier, I fail to see the value of a lot of idiot soldiers clumping about the place.
THE BRIGADIER: Oh, you’ve been thankful enough sometimes, Doctor.
THE GREEN DEATH
‘I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.’
THE DOCTOR, TERROR OF THE AUTONS
THE DOCTOR: Hello. Who are you?
RESTAC: Restac, Military commander.
THE DOCTOR: Oh dear, really? There’s always a military, isn’t there?
COLD BLOOD
THE DOCTOR: Never cared much for the word impregnable. Sounds a bit too much like unsinkable.
HARRY: What’s wrong with unsinkable?
THE DOCTOR: Nothing, as the iceberg said to the Titanic. . . Glug, glug, glug . . .
ROBOT
‘That’s typical of the military mind, isn’t it? Present them with a new problem, and they start shooting at it.’
THE DOCTOR, DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS
‘Among all the varied wonders of the universe there’s nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind.’
THE DOCTOR, BATTLEFIELD
‘The military mind at its most scintillating. Faced with a problem they blast it off the face of the Earth.’
THE DOCTOR, TERROR OF THE AUTONS
‘Chap with the wings there. Five rounds rapid.’
THE BRIGADIER, THE DAEMONS
‘The Time War. The whole universe convulsed. The Time War raged. Invisible to smaller species but devastating to higher forms.’
THE GELTH, THE UNQUIET DEAD
‘Perhaps it’s time. This is only the furthest edge of the Time War. But at its heart millions die every second. Lost in bloodlust and insanity. With Time itself resurrecting them to find new ways of dying, over and over again. A travesty of life.’
THE PARTISAN, THE END OF TIME
‘I’ve had many faces, many lives. I don’t admit to all of them. There’s one life I’ve tried very hard to forget. He was the Doctor who fought in the Time War, and that was the day he did it. The day I did it. The day he killed them all. The last day of the Time War. The war to end all wars between my people and the Daleks. And in that battle there was a man with more blood on his hands than any other, a man who would commit a crime that would silence the universe. And that man was me.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
‘For a long time I thought I was just a survivor, but I’m not. I’m the winner. That’s who I am. The Time Lord Victorious.’
THE DOCTOR, THE WATERS OF MARS
‘Everything she did was so human. She brought you back to life but she couldn’t control it. She brought you back for ever. That’s something, I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life.’
THE DOCTOR, UTOPIA
‘Hello, I’m the Doctor! I believe you want to kill me.’
THE DOCTOR, SILVER NEMESIS
ROSE: Mauve?
THE DOCTOR: The universally recognised colour for danger.
ROSE: What happened to red?
THE DOCTOR: That’s just humans. By everyone else’s standards, red’s camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing.’
THE EMPTY CHILD
‘The situation, Lavel, is normal. It doesn’t get much worse than that.’
THE BRIGADIER, BATTLEFIELD
‘Arms. Legs. Neck. Head. Nose. I’m fine. Everyone else?’
THE DOCTOR, MIDNIGHT
THE DOCTOR: So much fuss over a little water.
PERI: No, but pink water . . .
THE DOCTOR: Are you frightened it might clash with what you’re wearing?
PERI: No, I’m more concerned I might clash with what lives in it.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: MINDWARP
‘Every time, it’s rule one. Don’t wander off. I tell them, I do. Rule one. There could be anything on this ship.’
THE DOCTOR, THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
‘A risk shared is a risk doubled.’
THE DOCTOR, FRONTIOS
TURLOUGH: We’re running out of places to run.
TEGAN: It’s the story of our lives.
THE AWAKENING
THE DOCTOR: We’re up a gum tree without a paddle.
K-9: Define gum tree.
THE DOCTOR: Well, it’s a tree that gives gum.
K-9: Explain use of paddle in gum tree.
THE DOCTOR: You wouldn’t understand, K-9.
K-9: Affirmative.
THE HORNS OF NIMON
‘We’ve found something. It looks like metal. Like some sort of seal. I’ve got a nasty feeling the word might be trapdoor. Not a good word, trapdoor. Never met a trapdoor I liked.’
THE DOCTOR, THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET
‘Don’t wander off. Now, I’m not just saying don’t wander off, I mean it. Otherwise you’ll wander off and the next thing you know, somebody’s going to have to start rescuing somebody.’
THE DOCTOR, NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
‘Something’s wrong . . . we haven’t been attacked yet.’
THE DOCTOR, BATTLEFIELD
‘Jamie, we’re already in the lion’s den. What we’ve got to concentrate on is keeping our heads out of his mouth.’
THE DOCTOR, FURY FROM THE DEEP
SEAN: You are so on the team. Next week we’ve got the Crown and Anchor. We’re going to annihilate them.
THE DOCTOR: Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I’m around. Not today, not ever. I’m the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm . . . and you basically meant beat them in a football match, didn’t you?
SEAN: Yeah.
THE DOCTOR: Lovely. What sort of time?
THE LODGER
‘Sad really, isn’t it? People spend all their time making nice things, and other people come along and break them.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD
BROCK: His scarf killed Stimson!
THE DOCTOR: Arrest the scarf, then.
THE LEISURE HIVE
‘Frightening, isn’t it, to find there are others better versed in death than human beings.’
THE DOCTOR, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘Why can’t people be nice to one another, just for a change? I mean, I’m an alien and you don’t want to drag me into a swamp, do you? You do!’
THE DOCTOR, FULL CIRCLE
‘There should have been another way.’
THE DOCTOR, WARRIORS OF THE DEEP
THE DOCTOR: When you find something brand new in the world, something you’ve never seen before, what’s the next thing you look for?
STRAX: A grenade.
THE SNOWMEN
ROMANA: You should go into partnership with a glazier. You’d have a truly symbiotic working relationship.
DUGGAN: What?
ROMANA: I’m just pointing out that you break a lot of glass.
DUGGAN: You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
ROMANA: If you wanted an omelette, I’d expect to find a pile of broken crockery, a cooker in flames and an unconscious chef.
CITY OF DEATH
‘Yes, that’s your philosophy, isn’t it? If it moves, hit it . . . If you do that one more time, Duggan, I’m going to take very, very severe measures . . . I’m going to ask you not to.’
THE DOCTOR, CITY OF DEATH
‘Killing me isn’t going to help you. It isn’t going to do me much good either, is it?’
THE DOCTOR, THE FACE OF EVIL
‘You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delights and satisfaction of the gentle art of fisticuffs.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ROMANS
‘If you’re bleeding, look for a man with scars.’
LEELA, THE ROBOTS OF DEATH
‘I strongly advise the issuing of scissor grenades, limbo vapour and triple blast brain splitters . . . Remember, we are going to the north.’
STRAX, THE CRIMSON HORROR
LITEFOOT: I think this entire enterprise is extremely rash and ill-considered.
THE DOCTOR: My dear Litefoot, I’ve got a lantern and a pair of waders, and possibly the most fearsome piece of hand artillery in all England. What could possibly go wrong?
LITEFOOT: Well, that for a start. It hasn’t been fired for fifty years. If you try to use it, it’ll probably explode in your face.
THE DOCTOR: Explode? Unthinkable. It was made in Birmingham.
THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG
‘If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s being tortured by someone with cold hands.’
THE DOCTOR, CITY OF DEATH
‘Whereas yours is a simple case of sociopathy, Dibber, my malaise is much more complex. “A deep-rooted maladjustment”, my psychiatrist said. “Brought on by an infantile inability to come to terms with the more pertinent, concrete aspects of life” . . . Mind you, I had just attempted to kill him.’
SABALOM GLITZ, THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET
THE DOCTOR: Hello. I’m the Doctor.
VARNE: Unless you help us, you won’t be for very much longer.
ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN
‘How is it wherever I go in the universe there are always people like you pointing guns or phasers or blasters?’
THE DOCTOR, THE HORNS OF NIMON
ROSE: Doctor, they’ve got guns.
THE DOCTOR: And I haven’t. Which makes me the better person, don’t you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine.
ARMY OF GHOSTS
‘That’s what guns are for. Pull a trigger, end a life. Simple, isn’t it . . . Why don’t you do it, then? Look me in the eye, pull the trigger, end my life.’
THE DOCTOR, THE HAPPINESS PATROL
‘Guns can seriously damage your health, you know!’
THE DOCTOR, THE MARK OF THE RANI
‘Now drop your weapons, or I’ll kill him with this deadly jelly baby.’
THE DOCTOR, THE FACE OF EVIL
NIMON: Silence. Later you will be questioned, tortured and killed.
THE DOCTOR: Well I hope you get it in the right order.
THE HORNS OF NIMON
THE INQUISITOR: I find primitive physical violence distressing.
THE DOCTOR: So do I, ma’am. Especially when I’m on the receiving end.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET
STRAX: If she hasn’t made contact by nightfall, I suggest a massive frontal assault on the factory, madam. Casualties can be kept to perhaps as little as eighty per cent.
VASTRA: I think there may be subtler ways of proceeding, Strax.
STRAX: Suit yourself.
THE CRIMSON HORROR
‘I say, what a wonderful butler. He’s so violent.’
THE DOCTOR, CITY OF DEATH
‘You fought her off with a water pistol. I bloody love you!’
DONNA, THE FIRES OF POMPEII
‘Conquered the Earth? You poor, pathetic creatures. Don’t you realise? Before you attempt to conquer the Earth, you will have to destroy all living matter.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
‘There are only two sides today, Barbara. Those who rule by fear and treachery, and those who fight for reason and justice. Anyone who betrays these principles is worse than the devil in hell!’
JULES RENAN, THE REIGN OF TERROR
THE DOCTOR: I’ll say one thing for you, Davros. Your conversation is totally predictable. You’re like a deranged child, all this talk of killing, revenge and destruction.
DAVROS: It is the only path to ultimate power.
RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS
‘Krynoid on the outside, a madman lurking inside, not a happy situation.’
THE DOCTOR, THE SEEDS OF DOOM
‘One man’s law is another man’s crime.’
THE DOCTOR, THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION
‘Bad laws were made to be broken.’
THE DOCTOR, THE MACRA TERROR
ROMANA: The Black Guardian’s a real threat.
THE DOCTOR: Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station, the cosmos is full of them.
THE LEISURE HIVE
‘This is all too easy. A great pity. These facile victories only leave me hungry for more conquest.’
THE MASTER, CASTROVALVA
‘What is the one thing evil cannot face? Not ever? . . . Itself.’
THE DOCTOR, KINDA
‘Intruders from other planets always say they wish to talk, but all they mean to do is destroy.’
SECOND SENSORITE, THE SENSORITES
‘Doctor, I offer you power. Power to corrupt, to destroy. Think of the exhilaration of that power. Serve me and live.’
THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER, THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER
THE NUCLEUS: The age of man is over, Doctor. The age of the virus has begun.
THE DOCTOR: I’ve heard it all before. You megalomaniacs are all the same.
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
‘Revenge! Best served hot.’
THE MASTER, LAST OF THE TIME LORDS
THE DOCTOR: 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? . . . Because, if you’re not listening, I can make you listen because I can do anything . . . As from this moment there’s no such thing as free will in the entire universe. There’s only my will, because I possess the Key to Time!
ROMANA: Doctor – are you all right?
THE DOCTOR: Well, of course I’m all right. But supposing I wasn’t all right? Well, this thing makes me feel in such a way I’d be very worried if I felt like that about someone else feeling like this about that. Do you understand?
THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR
‘Don’t fire until you see the green of its tentacles.’
THE DOCTOR, HORROR OF FANG ROCK
ELLIOT: Have you met monsters before?
THE DOCTOR: Yeah.
ELLIOT: You scared of them?
THE DOCTOR: No, they’re scared of me.
THE HUNGRY EARTH
LIZ: I deal with facts, not science fiction ideas.
THE BRIGADIER: Miss Shaw, I’m not a fool. I don’t chase shadows. What you don’t understand is that there might, there is a remote possibility that outside your cosy little world other things could exist.
SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
‘You know, just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets.’
THE BRIGADIER, ROBOT
ROMANA: Are there many creatures like that in other worlds?
THE DOCTOR: Millions. Millions! You shouldn’t have volunteered if you are scared of a little thing like that.
THE RIBOS OPERATION
‘Makes you wonder what could be so bad it doesn’t actually mind us thinking it’s a vampire.’
THE DOCTOR, VAMPIRES OF VENICE
THE DOCTOR: Any intelligent life form?
TARON: Oh, yes. The Spiridons. They’re invisible.
THE DOCTOR: I’d very much like to see one of them.
PLANET OF THE DALEKS
IAN: Maybe we could talk to them, make them understand?
THE DOCTOR: Apart from rubbing our back legs together like some sort of grasshopper, I doubt if we could get on speaking terms with them.
THE WEB PLANET
‘Well, I never thought I’d fire in anger at a dratted caterpillar . . .’
THE BRIGADIER, THE GREEN DEATH
COMMANDER: I don’t understand. Why was it necessary for him to make himself look human?
THE DOCTOR: Well, if you’d seen a Usurian you’d know what I mean. They look like sea kale with eyes. I mean, would you take orders from a lump of seaweed?
THE SUN MAKERS
‘When you’ve travelled as much as I have, you’ll learn never to judge by appearances. These creatures may look like chickens, but for all we know, they’re the intelligent life form on this planet.’
THE DOCTOR, CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
BRIAN: Are those pterodactyls?
THE DOCTOR: Yes. On any other occasion, I’d be thrilled. Exposed on a beach, less thrilled.
DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP
THE DOCTOR: Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I’m saving the world?
JOSEPH GREEN: Would you rather silent but deadly?
ALIENS OF LONDON
THE DOCTOR: Somehow the Krynoid can channel its power to other plants. All the vegetation on this planet is about to turn hostile.
THACKERAY: You mean like aggressive rhubarb?
THE DOCTOR: Yes, aggressive rhubarb.
BERESFORD: What about homicidal gooseberries?
THE SEEDS OF DOOM
‘You really can’t go on calling yourself Morbius. There’s very little of Morbius left. Why don’t you think of another name? Potpourri would be appropriate.’
THE DOCTOR, THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS
‘We’re being attacked by statues in a crashed ship. There isn’t a manual for this.’
THE DOCTOR, FLESH AND STONE
‘As my dear mother always used to say – born under the sign of Patus, middle cusp, she was – if you can help anybody, like preventing them from being eaten by a monster, then do so. They might be grateful.’
ORGANON, THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT
RANQUIN: Kroll is all wise, all seeing—
THE DOCTOR: All baloney. Kroll couldn’t tell the difference between you and me and a half an acre of dandelion and burdock.
THE POWER OF KROLL
THE DOCTOR: A Nestene is a ruthlessly aggressive intelligent alien life form.
JO: Well, what do they look like?
THE DOCTOR: Well I suspect myself their basic form is analogous to a cephalopod.
JO: What’s a cephalopod?
THE DOCTOR: An octopus. I thought you took an A level in science.
JO: I didn’t say I passed.
TERROR OF THE AUTONS
‘Exterminate!’
THE DALEKS, VARIOUS
COMMANDER SHARREL: You know the Daleks?
THE DOCTOR: Oh, better than you could possibly imagine.
DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
‘Advance and attack! Attack and destroy! Destroy and rejoice!’
THE DALEKS, THE CHASE
‘Daleks are such boring conversationalists.’
THE DOCTOR, REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘Inside each of those shells is a living, bubbling lump of hate.’
THE DOCTOR, DEATH TO THE DALEKS
‘You are my enemy! And I am yours. You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I’ve defeated you – time and time again I’ve defeated you. I sent you back into the Void. I saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor. And you are the Daleks.’
THE DOCTOR, VICTORY OF THE DALEKS
THE DOCTOR: I thought you’d run out of ways to make me sick . . . You think hatred is beautiful.
DALEK PRIME MINISTER: Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you.
ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS
GILMORE: Doctor, my men have just put three high-explosive grenades into a confined area. Nothing even remotely human could have survived that.
THE DOCTOR: That’s the point group, Group Captain, it isn’t even remotely human.
REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘If you’re supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don’t you try climbing after us?’
THE DOCTOR, DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
ADAM: Great big alien death machine defeated by a flight of stairs . . .
DALEK: Elevate!
DALEK
DALEK: Have pity!
THE DOCTOR: Why should I? You never did.
DALEK
‘Pity? I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. Exterminate.’
DALEK, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
DALEKS: Save the Daleks! Save the Daleks!
THE DOCTOR: Well. This is new.
ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS
GILMORE: What am I dealing with? Little green men?
THE DOCTOR: No, little green blobs in bonded-polycarbide armour.
REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘It’s called a Dalek. And it’s not just metal, it’s alive . . . Inside that shell is a creature born to hate. Whose only thought is to destroy everything and everyone that isn’t a Dalek too. It won’t stop until it’s killed every human being alive.’
THE DOCTOR, DALEKS IN MANHATTAN
‘Never underestimate the Daleks.’
THE DOCTOR, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
‘One Dalek is capable of exterminating all!’
DALEK, THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN
‘It can do many things . . . But the thing it does most efficiently is exterminate human beings. It destroys them, without mercy, without conscience. It destroys them. Utterly. Completely.’
THE DOCTOR, THE POWER OF THE DALEKS
‘Today, the Kaled race is ended, consumed in a fire of war, but from its ashes will rise a new race, the supreme creature, the ultimate conqueror of the universe – the Dalek! The action you take today is the beginning of a journey that will take the Daleks to their destiny of universal and absolute supremacy.’
DAVROS, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
‘The moment that we forget that we’re dealing with people, then we’re no better off than the machines that we came here to destroy. When we start acting and thinking like the Daleks, Taron, the battle is lost.’
THE DOCTOR, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
‘But if I kill, wipe out a whole intelligent life form, then I become like them. I’d be no better than the Daleks.’
THE DOCTOR, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
‘The Daleks will triumph. We cannot fail. The Daleks’ true destiny is to rule the universe.’
SUPREME DALEK, RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS
THE DOCTOR: The Daleks have failed! Why don’t you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct. Rid the universe of your filth. Why don’t you just die?
DALEK: You would make a good Dalek.
DALEK
‘Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything, ever, from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you scream.’
THE DOCTOR, DOOMSDAY
‘You stupid tin boxes.’
THE MASTER, FRONTIER IN SPACE
DALEK JAST: Daleks are supreme. Humans are weak.
DALEK SEC: But there are millions of humans and only four of us. If we are supreme, why are we not victorious? The Cult of Skaro was created by the Emperor for this very purpose. To imagine new ways of survival.
DALEK THAY: But we must remain pure.
DALEK SEC: No, Dalek Thay. Our purity has brought us to extinction.
DALEKS IN MANHATTAN
THE DOCTOR: Dalek hunting is a terminal pastime.
ACE: So what are we doing?
THE DOCTOR: Dalek hunting.
REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS
‘We are entombed, but we live on. This is only the beginning. We will prepare. We will grow stronger. When the time is right, we will emerge and take our rightful place as the supreme power of the universe!’
DALEK, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
‘The trouble with Daleks is, they take so long to say anything. Probably die of boredom before they shoot me.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
SUPREME DALEK: You are the Doctor. You must be exterminated.
THE DOCTOR: Don’t mess with me, sweetheart.
VICTORY OF THE DALEKS
DALEK SEC: My Daleks, just understand this. If you choose death and destruction, then death and destruction will choose you.
DALEK THAY: Incorrect. We will always survive.
EVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS
‘The Daleks are never defeated!’
SUPREME DALEK, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
‘They survive. They always survive, while I lose everything.’
THE DOCTOR, DALEKS IN MANHATTAN
‘Just touch these two strands together and the Daleks are finished. Have I that right? . . . You see, some things could be better with the Daleks. Many future worlds will become allies just because of their fear of the Daleks . . . Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child? . . . Do I have the right?’
THE DOCTOR, GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
KRAIL: Feelings? I do not understand that word.
THE DOCTOR: Emotions. Love, pride, hate, fear. Have you no emotions, sir?
THE TENTH PLANET
BENOIT: Have you no mercy?
CYBERMAN: It is unnecessary.
THE MOONBASE
CYBERLEADER: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
DALEK SEC: This is not war. This is pest control.
DOOMSDAY
‘We think of the humans. We think of their difference and their pain. They suffer in the skin. They must be upgraded.’
CYBERMAN, THE AGE OF STEEL
CYBERMAN: You know our ways. You must be destroyed.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, well, I was afraid you’d get back to that.
THE WHEEL IN SPACE
‘You’ve no home planet, no influence, nothing. You’re just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship.’
THE DOCTOR, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
‘Oh, Lumic, you’re a clever man. I’d call you a genius, except I’m in the room. But everything you’ve invented, you did to fight your sickness. And that’s brilliant. That is so human. But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what’s there to strive for, eh? The Cybermen won’t advance. You’ll just stop. You’ll stay like this for ever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts, lacking the one thing that makes this planet so alive. People. Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people.’
THE DOCTOR, THE AGE OF STEEL
‘The trouble with Cybermen is they’ve got hydraulic muscles, and of course hydraulic brains to go with them.’
THE DOCTOR, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
THE DOCTOR: That’s a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed.
ROSE: Why no emotions?
THE DOCTOR: Because it hurts.
RISE OF THE CYBERMEN
‘It’s hard to fight an enemy that uses your armies as spare parts.’
PORRIDGE, NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
DALEK SEC: You are superior in only one respect.
CYBERLEADER: What is that?
DALEK SEC: You are better at dying.
DOOMSDAY
CYBERLEADER: If humans had not had the resources of Voga, the Cyber War would have ended in glorious triumph.
THE DOCTOR: It was a glorious triumph, for human ingenuity. They discovered your weakness and invented the glitter gun, and that was the end of Cybermen, except as gold-plated souvenirs that people use as hat stands.
REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
CYBERMAN: You are the Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Correct. And the Doctor always gives you a choice. Deactivate yourself, or I deactivate you.
CLOSING TIME
‘That’s a Sontaran spaceship, to be precise, and tremendously powerful for its size, just like its owner.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME WARRIOR
SARAH: You killed him!
STYRE: That is my function. I am a warrior.
THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
‘Sontarans never do anything without a military reason.’
THE DOCTOR, THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
STOR: I am Commander Stor, of the Sontaran Special Space Service.
THE DOCTOR: The SSSS. Isn’t that carrying alliteration a little far?
THE INVASION OF TIME
‘You have a primary and secondary reproductive cycle. It is an inefficient system, you should change it.’
LINX, THE TIME WARRIOR
THE DOCTOR: Sontaran. Clone warrior race. Factory produced, whole legions at a time. Two genders is a bit further than he can count.
STRAX: Sir, do not discuss my reproductive cycle in front of enemy girls. It’s embarrassing.
THE SNOWMEN
‘I am the Master, and you will obey me . . .’
THE MASTER, VARIOUS
‘That’s my best enemy. He likes to be known as the Master, don’t you?’
THE DOCTOR, THE FIVE DOCTORS
THE MASTER: I like it when you use my name.
THE DOCTOR: You chose it. Psychiatrist’s field day.
THE SOUND OF DRUMS
‘We are an explosive combination. One day, one of us might blot the other one out.’
THE DOCTOR, SURVIVAL
‘Doctor, you’re my intellectual equal. Almost. I have so few worthy opponents. When they’ve gone, I always miss them.’
THE MASTER, TERROR OF THE AUTONS
‘He’s on his last life, fighting to survive. And the science has shown us over and over, in the fight for survival there are no rules.’
THE DOCTOR, DOCTOR WHO (TV MOVIE)
‘Envy is the beginning of all true greatness.’
THE MASTER, LOGOPOLIS
‘Life is wasted on the living!’
THE MASTER, DOCTOR WHO (TV MOVIE)
THE MASTER: I am the Master!
PERI: So what? I’m Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can.
PLANET OF FIRE
‘I’m indestructible. The whole universe knows that.’
THE MASTER, THE MARK OF THE RANI
‘I had estates. Do you remember my father’s land back home? Pastures of red grass stretching far across the slopes of Mount Perdition. We used to run across those fields all day. Calling up at the sky. Look at us now.’
THE MASTER, THE END OF TIME
THE MASTER: Who else is there strong enough to give these humans the leadership they need?
THE DOCTOR: I seem to remember somebody else speaking like that. What was the bounder’s name? Hitler. Yes, that’s right, Adolf Hitler. Or was it Genghis Khan?
THE DAEMONS
‘The drumming. Can’t you hear it? I thought it would stop, but it never does. Never ever stops. Inside my head, the drumming, Doctor. The constant drumming.’
THE MASTER, THE SOUND OF DRUMS
‘I’d like to try and take the Doctor alive if possible. If not, I’ll blast him out of space. Pity though . . . I don’t know, rocket fire at long range . . . somehow it lacks that personal touch.’
THE MASTER, FRONTIER IN SPACE
‘Where I cannot win by stealth, I shall destroy. That way I cannot fail to win.’
THE MASTER, THE KING’S DEMONS
THE MASTER: One must rule or serve. That is the basic law of life. Why do you hesitate? Surely it’s not loyalty to the Time Lords, who exiled you on one insignificant planet?
THE DOCTOR: You’ll never understand, will you? I want to see the universe, not rule it.
COLONY IN SPACE
THE MASTER: I know this is going to be hard to believe, Doctor, but for once I mean you no harm.
THE DOCTOR: Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast.
THE FIVE DOCTORS
‘You’re a genius. You’re stone cold brilliant, you are. I swear, you really are. But you could be so much more. You could be beautiful. With a mind like that, we could travel the stars. It would be my honour. Cause you don’t need to own the universe. Just see it. To have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space. That’s ownership enough.’
THE DOCTOR, THE END OF TIME
MEL: How utterly evil!
THE MASTER: Thank you.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE ULTIMATE FOE
‘You’re a clumsy, ham-fisted idiot.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ARK IN SPACE
‘I admire bravery and loyalty, sir. You have both of these. But, unfortunately you haven’t any brain at all. I hate fools.’
THE DOCTOR, THE CRUSADE
‘You swede-bashing cretin.’
COLBY, IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL
CHORLEY: There’s no sense in us losing our temper, Miss Travers. I’m sorry that my journalistic style doesn’t appeal to you, but there are millions of people it does.
ANNE: Yes, the gutter press has a very large following.
THE WEB OF FEAR
‘You’ve been down here so long that you’re beginning to think like worms.’
DORTMUN, THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
‘Stubborn old mule’
THE DOCTOR, HORROR OF FANG ROCK
‘My dear boy, if they had to deal with a man of your talents, they need hardly fear, need they?’
THE DOCTOR, THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
‘They’re policemen. We all know they’re solid, sterling fellows, but their buttons are the brightest thing about them, don’t you agree?’
JAGO, THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG
‘Don’t listen to him. It’s just the ravings of a demented space tramp.’
ADRASTA, THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT
‘You weak fool. You craven-hearted spineless poltroon.’
THE MASTER, THE DEADLY ASSASSIN
THE DOCTOR: I don’t like your tone, sir.
CUTLER: And I don’t like your face, nor your hair.
THE TENTH PLANET
‘Yes, Packer. Our clever Doctor has outwitted you. Oh, then, that wouldn’t be too difficult, would it?’
TOBIAS VAUGHN, THE INVASION
‘Oh, I do not fear the thunder, you superstitious, dark-dodging decadent!’
HECTOR, THE MYTH MAKERS
‘You’re nothing. Nothing but a mass of superheated junk with delusions of grandeur.’
THE DOCTOR, UNDERWORLD
‘Do hurry up! A hamster with a blunt penknife would do it quicker!’
THE DOCTOR, THE ANDROIDS OF TARA
‘You, smart? Krelper, the wind whistles through your ears.’
STOTZ, THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI
‘Yes, well I’ll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you, Professor . . . That you, sir, are a nitwit!’
THE DOCTOR, INFERNO
‘For such a little woman your mouth is too big.’
VILLAR, THE WAR GAMES
‘Yes, let me guess. My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don’t like my tie.’
THE DOCTOR, GHOST LIGHT
‘All right. All right, I’ll confess . . . I confess you’re a bigger idiot than I thought you were.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DEADLY ASSASSIN
‘You know, you’re a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ROBOTS OF DEATH
‘If you’d only try and use the little intelligence you have . . .’
THE DOCTOR, INFERNO
‘Mickey, you were born in the dark.’
THE DOCTOR, WORLD WAR THREE
ROSE: My mother’s cooking.
THE DOCTOR: Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.
WORLD WAR THREE
‘You’re happy to believe in something that’s invisible, but if it’s staring you in the face, nope, can’t see it. There’s a scientific explanation for that. You’re thick.’
THE DOCTOR, WORLD WAR THREE
‘Child, if only you’d think as an adult sometimes.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DALEKS
‘You craven-gutted factory fodder.’
MANDREL, THE SUN MAKERS
‘You male chauvinist bilge bag.’
ACE, DRAGONFIRE
‘I can’t decide whether you’re a rogue, a halfwit or both!
THE DOCTOR, THE REIGN OF TERROR
‘Jamie, it’s a brilliant idea! It’s so simple only you could have thought of it.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOMINATORS
‘Don’t get all chippy with me, Vera Duckworth. Pop your clogs on and go and feed whippets.’
DONNA, TURN LEFT
‘You hag! You perfidious hag! You virago! You harpy!’
ADA, THE CRIMSON HORROR
‘Before we start all that, I just want to say thank you. Thank you, one and all. You ugly, fat-faced bunch of wet, snivelling traitors.’
THE MASTER, THE SOUND OF DRUMS
‘Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!’
THE DOCTOR, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN