Dr. Martin Ellingham quotes from Doc Martin

I suppose that reminds you how precious life is. You know. Living each moment as the last, Carpe diem, Hakuna matata...

Dr. Martin Ellingham

This man celebrated his precious life by eating junk food and giving himself a heart attack.

An ambulance would not be more appropriate?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Edith, there is a sick man on Bodmin Moor, I'm on Bodmin Moor and I'm a doctor.

(About Louisa) Is she your girlfriend?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No.

How tall are you? Why do you look so sad?

What is that you've got there?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Mind your own business. Shoo!

What does "shoo" mean?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

It means go away.

But why didn't you say, go away?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

GO - AWAY!

It's cancer, wasn't it? How long have I got left? A year? Two?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Grabs a book from a packing box)

Oh bloody hell, you know it's bad when even the doctor has to look it up in a book.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

It's a ganglion, a cyst of the joint. Hold your hand up. (Swings the book hard and hits his hand)

Dr. Martin Ellingham

There are still boxes in this room.

How are you, Louisa? Are you sore?

Louisa Glasson

A little bit.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Where?

Louisa Glasson

It's nothing.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Where are you sore?

Louisa Glasson

Where do you think?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Is it just the perineum?

Louisa Glasson

The what?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

The perineum—between the anus and the vagina.

Louisa Glasson

(Embarrassed) Martin, we're in a shop.

Mrs. Tishell

Have you had this medication before?

No.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No. And why is that, Mrs Bollard?

Don't know, Dr. Ellingham.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Yes, you do. You've already damaged your liver and, until you get your alcohol consumption under control, Diclofenac will make it worse.

The new doctor said I could have some for my ankles.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Well, she's wrong. Put it back.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Did you know that Joan left you the farm?

Dr. Ruth Ellingham

That bloody woman. And I only gave her slippers for Christmas.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

You do realise that vegetables grow on your farm?

Dr. Ruth Ellingham

If they leapt out of the ground and cleaned themselves, I might be tempted to cook them.

Bert Large

Cristals and canals on my ear? The next you will tell me is that I've got a magic castle with a fairy princess on my nose.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Why that?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

There's a peculiar odour in this room...

PC Joe Penhale

I'm afraid that's the smell of murder, Doc.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

It's like... garlic.

PC Joe Penhale

And French cooking.

Louisa Glasson

Oh, and read him a bed time story. He seems to like the one about the talking fire engine.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Hm. Highly unlikely he can grasp the concept of a fire engine, let alone one that's apparently sentient.

Eleanor Glasson

(To Louisa) It's been such a long time. I suppose I should be annoyed by making me a grandmother. I'm a bit young for that. Don't you think?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Biological speaking you are exactly on the right age. Fifty-seven, fifty-eight.

Eleanor Glasson

(Eyeing Martin) Yeah. Round there.

Louisa Glasson

I'be managed perfectly alone all these years. I don't need her interfering now.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

But you wrote to her about the baby.

Louisa Glasson

Yes, of course I did.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

So you must to want to her to have some kind of involvement with him.

Louisa Glasson

I don't know! It wasn't a rational thing, Martin!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No.

Louisa Glasson

(Listening to James on the baby monitor) He's stopped crying!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Maybe I should go and check.

Louisa Glasson

Martin. She's my mother. I'll be the one that doesn't trust her.