First Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

You know, I rather like the idea of being an outlaw legend! I'm sure a few grand tales about me wouldn't do any harm?

Interfering with history will always be harmful, you conceited ninny!

Why must you always be so self-righteous? And a hypocrite, to boot! I know what you did in Troy!

How dare you. That was different. That was to save lives!

Your own life!

My dear Dodo, you've heard the story about the Greeks hiding in a giant horse so they could get into the city and sack it?

Dodo

Yes...

That was the Doctor's idea! He told them to do that!

Dodo

[gasps] Doctor!

Entirely. Different. Circumstances!

Ian

If I may say so, you still seem rather troubled by it all.

Well, I... I suppose that I am. I'm starting, you see, to wonder...

Ian

About what?

About whether we have a duty to intervene, Chesterton, no matter the cost, or the rules. About whether what I had believed all of my life to be true is necessarily so, and... About whether, one day in the end, I'm simply going to have to change.

Ian

Sounds a bit extreme, Doctor. We all like you, you know, just the way you are.

Oh, you're very kind, very kind indeed. But for now... Yes, let's see where we end up next.

Ian

Onwards, then?

That's right, my boy. Always onwards!

You… are me? No. No.

Yes. Yes, I'm very much afraid so.

Do I... become... you?

Well, there's a few false starts, but you get there in the end.

I thought...

What?

Well, I assumed I'd get... younger.

I am younger!

What's the matter?

I died a few hours ago and I refused to regenerate. Catches up with you, you know. It's like a big lunch.

I did exactly the same.

I know you did, but why? I don't remember this. Why are you refusing the regeneration?

Fear. I'm afraid. Very, very afraid. I don't normally admit that to anyone else.

Don't worry. Technically, you still haven't.

I adjusted the time frame, only by a couple of hours. Any other day, it wouldn't make any difference, but this is Christmas 1914... A human miracle is about to happen. The Christmas Armistice. It never happened again, any war, anywhere. But for one day, one Christmas, a very long time ago... everyone just put down their weapons... and started to sing. Everybody just stopped. Everyone... was just kind.

You've saved him!

Both of them. Never hurts, a couple fewer dead people on the battlefield.

So, that's what it means to be a Doctor of War...

You were right, you know. The universe generally fails to be a fairy tale... but that's where we come in!

No! [he fights off his regeneration] I will not change!

[in the distance] I will not change! I will not! No, no, no, no. The whole thing's ridiculous!

Hello! Is someone there?

Who is that?

I'm the Doctor.

[approaching] The Doctor? Oh, I don't think so. No, dear me, no. You may be a Doctor, but I am the Doctor. The original, you might say!