If there was a bomb under this floor timed to go off in five minutes, would you ask my permission before you ripped up the floorboards? [Distracted] Ah ha, fruit!
Second Doctor
Doctor Who · 1,966 quotes
10th most-quoted character in Doctor Who: in 64 of its 1,966 quotes
Most scenes with: Jamie McCrimmon (16), Polly (9), Ben Jackson (6)
Lines by Second Doctor 17
[Talking about the Daleks] I know the misery they cause. The destruction.
There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought.
Well, in view of the facts that I’ve already presented - the ray gun, this pen and one or two other things - I think we’re dealing with people who are not from this planet.
I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part.
[The Doctor on disabling the Cybermats]
The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal minds. You might almost say they've had a complete metal breakdown. [Jamie groans] Oh, I'm so sorry, Jamie.
The best thing about a machine that makes sense is you can very easily make it turn out nonsense.
People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them!
(27 April - 1 June 1968)
Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie. Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?
(after seeing Jamie turn to cardboard without a face) Oh now I've lost his face.
Oh, yes, it could be 20th century. England in summertime, I should say. See the rain clouds?
I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them!
(when hearing a quick loud ring) Great jumping gobstoppers!
Well...it is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved.
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