Twelfth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

See how they play with her. See how they toy. They want her to run. They need her to run. Do you feel their need, Doctor? Their blood is screaming, "kill, kill, kill"! Hunter and prey, held in the ecstasy of crisis. Is this not life at its purest? [Clara runs]

Exterminate! Exterminate! [the Daleks fire, Clara screams and vanishes as the death rays hit her]

Why have I ever let you live?

Compassion, Doctor. It has always been your greatest indulgence. Let this be my final victory. Let me hear you say it, just once. Compassion is wrong.

Are you going to save me?

I'm going to save my friend, the only way I can! Exterminate!

Now, the real question is: Where did he get the cup of tea? Answer: I'm the Doctor. Just accept it.

You are unharmed.

Proposition. Davros is an insane, paranoid genius who has survived among several billion trigger-happy mini-tanks for centuries. Conclusion? I'm definitely having his chair.

I've been at the heart of your empire for forty-two minutes, and I haven't even got out of my chair! Ask me what I want.

What do you want?

Clara Oswald. I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive, and returned to me immediately! You bring her back -- you do that! You do that now! Unharmed, unhurt, alive.

Your associate--

I saw what happened, I was there! And I'm hoping, for all our sakes, that it was a trick!

It was not a deception.

Because if Clara Oswald is really dead... Then you'd better be very, very careful how you tell me.

Listen to that... The Doctor without hope.

Who's going to tell me? Who's going to go first?

Nobody's safe now.

All the power Davros had is mine! Everything he had, I have! Who's going to tell me Clara Oswald is really dead?!

He'll burn everything. Us, too.

There's no such thing as the Doctor. I’m just a bloke in a box telling stories. I didn’t come here because I'm ashamed. A bit of shame never hurt anyone. I came… because you're sick and you asked. And because sometimes, on a good day, if I try very hard… I’m not some old Time Lord who ran away. I'm the Doctor.

Compassion, then.

Always.

There is a question, Doctor. One I have longed to ask.

Yeah, well, if you're going to put your hand on my knee, it isn't going to go well.

Why did you leave Gallifrey?

Well, because I did.

You stole a TARDIS, and ran and ran. Why?

It's a boring place, Gallifrey. I was going out of my mind.

Yet you long to return.

Ah, well, I'm inconsistent.

But it is always the same lie.

What lie?

You weren't bored. No one runs the way you have run for so small a reason.

Did I do right, Doctor? Tell me… was I right? I need to know, before the end. Am I a good man?

You really are dying, aren't you?

Look at me. Did you doubt it?

Yes.

Then we have established one thing only.

What?

You are not… a good doctor. [After a moment, the Doctor laughs, and Davros laughs with him.]

Come on. I'll take you home.

Which side are you on? Are you the enemy?

I'm not sure if any of that matters. Friends. Enemies. So long as there is mercy. Always mercy.

Whoa! Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho! Where do you think you're going?!

Out there. Where the action is.

Look, um…

What?

Oh, this is my own fault. I like adventures as much as the next man, if the next man is a man who likes adventures. Even so, don't… Don't go native.

What do you mean? I'm not.

Look, there's a whole dimension in here (spreads his hands out, indicating the TARDIS), but there's only room for one… me.

Wait… wait a second. You just raved about ghosts like a kid who had too much sherbet.

Do you know what you need? You need a hobby.

Oh, I really don't.

Or, even better, another relationship. Come on, you lot, you're bananas about relationships. You're always writing songs about them, or go to war, or gettin' tattooed.

Doctor. I'm fine.

I just… felt that I — I had to say something.

I know, and I appreciated it.

'Cause I've got a duty of care.

(bemused) Which you take very seriously, I know.

So can I stop now?

Please. Please do.

This isn't a potential future. This is the future now. It's already happened. The proof is right there in front of you. I have to die.

No. You can change things.

I can't. Even the tiniest change, the ramifications could be catastrophic. It could spread carnage and chaos across the universe like ripples on a pond. Oh, well, I've had a good innings. This regeneration, it's a bit of a clerical error anyway. I've got to go sometime.

Not with me! Die with whoever comes after me. You do not leave me.

Listen to me. We all have to face death eventually, be it ours or someone else's.

I'm not ready yet. I don't want to think about that, not yet.

I can't change what's already happened. There are rules.

So break them. And anyway, you owe me. You've made yourself essential to me. You've given me something else to, to be. And you can't do that and then die. It's not fair. No, Doctor, I don't care about your rules or your bloody survivor's guilt. If you love me in any way ... you'll come back.

You will be a strong beacon. How many ghosts can I make of you?

You know, you've got a lot in common with the Tivolians. You'll both do anything to survive. They'll surrender to anyone. You will hijack other peoples' souls and turn them into electro-magnetic projections. That will to endure… that refusal to ever cease. It's extraordinary. And it makes a fella think! Because you know what? If all I have to do to survive is to tweak the future a bit, what's stopping me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah: the ripple effect. Maybe it will mean that the universe will be ruled by cats or something in the future. But the way I see it, even a ghastly future is better than no future at all! You robbed those people of their deaths; made them nothing more than a message in a bottle. You violated something more important than time: you bent the rules of life and death. So I am putting things straight! Here, now, this is where your story ends!

It won't stop, the repair kit I put inside Ashildr, not ever. It'll just keep fixing her.

Well, good.

I'm not sure, but it's entirely possible she has lost the ability to die.

The ability?

Oh, dying's an ability, believe me. Barring accidents, she may now be functionally immortal.

If the repair kit never stops working, then why did you give her two?

Immortality isn't living forever, that's not what it feels like. Immortality is everyone else dying. She might meet someone she can't bear to lose. That happens… I believe.

Kill me.

Why?

If you intend any harm to this planet or its people, then killing me is by far your best move.

You invite your own death?

No. I just want you to attack first. Then my conscience is clear.

Of what?

You.

Why should I be responsible for you?

You made me immortal!

I saved your life. I didn't know that your heart would rust because I kept it beating. I didn't think your conscience would need renewing, that the well of human kindness would run dry. I just wanted to save a terrified young woman's life.

You didn't save my life, Doctor. You trapped me inside it.