Harry Sullivan quotes from Doctor Who

[on phone] Get me the medical officer.

(semi-conscious) Typical Sontaran attitude...

[on phone] Lieutenant Sullivan?

(semi-conscious) Stop Linx...

[on phone] Emergency. Come to the lab at once, please.

(semi-conscious) Perverting the course of human history...

What's he talking about?

Sarah Jane

It's something that happened when we first met.

(sits up) I tell you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about! The brontosaurus is large and placid! (falls back)

Harry Sullivan

This the patient, sir?

And stupid! (sits back up) If the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the square on the other two sides, why is a mouse when it spins? Never did know the answer to that one. (falls back again)

Harry Sullivan

You're not fit yet!

"Not fit"? I'm the Doctor!

Harry Sullivan

No, Doctor, I'm the doctor, and I say you're not fit!

You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.

Heartsbeat?

Harry Sullivan

I say, I don't think that can be right.

Both a bit fast, are they? Still, must be patient! A new body is like a new house; takes a little bit of time to settle in! [He catches his face in a mirror.] As for the physiognomy... Well, nothing's perfect. Have to take the rough with the smooth... Mind you, I think the nose is a definite improvement! As for the ears, well, I'm not too sure. Tell me, quite frankly, what do you say to the ears?

Harry Sullivan

Well, I really don't know--

Well, of course you don't! You're a busy man! You don't want to stand here burbling about my ears, neither "ear" nor there!

[Entering room] Doctor, there's been another...Where is he?

Harry Sullivan

[Gestures to the TARDIS] In there.

He promised...

[Interrupting] Ah, Brigadier.

All right Doctor, we must get moving. [turns to face the Doctor]

[Dressed as a Viking] Is something wrong?

You've changed.

Oh no, not again! No!

I, I didn't mean your face. I meant your clothes.

Don't you like them?

UNIT is supposed to be a security organization.

Do you think I might attract attention?

It's just possible.

One moment. [heads back into the TARDIS to change]

Believe me, Doctor, the place is impregnable!

Never cared much for the word 'impregnable.' Sounds a bit too much like 'unsinkable.'

Harry Sullivan

What's wrong with unsinkable?

'Nothing,' as the iceberg said to the Titanic!

Harry Sullivan

What?

[as he sinks back into the car] Glub glub glub....

You're a clumsy, ham fisted idiot!

Harry Sullivan

I said I was sorry!

What?! Come out. And don't touch anything!

Harry Sullivan

I was only trying to open the door!

You haven't touched anything, have you Harry?

Harry Sullivan

Me?!

Well, there are only two of us here, and your name is Harry!

Aren't you feeling better?

Harry Sullivan

[Holding his head] No I'm not!

Well pull yourself together, man, this is fascinating!

Harry

Steady-- Steady on, Old Girl! Steady on...

Sarah Jane

Harry...

Harry

Yes, I'm here, I'm here.

Sarah Jane

Call me 'Old Girl' again... And I'll spit in your eye.

Welcome back, Sarah Jane!

Vira

The Ark was designed to have a negative fault capacity.

Harry

Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. First law of the sea.

Harry

There you are, what'd I tell you? The Doctor's a first class boffin!

Harry Sullivan

How are you doing, old girl?

Sarah Jane

[hisses back] How do you think I’m doing, twit?

Harry Sullivan

[affronted] Sorry, I thought you were stuck.

Harry

Doctor! I thought you were dead.

Not me [He holds up a piece of metal.] Piece of the synestic locking mechanism from Nerva's rocket — popped it in my pocket.

Harry

Fortuitous.

Foresight. You never know when these bits and pieces will come in handy. Never throw anything away, Harry. [He throws it away.] Now, where's my five hundred year diary. I remember jotting some notes on the Sontarans... It's a mistake to clutter one's pockets, Harry.

Well good now he's gone, any chance of a cup of tea?

What?!

Or coffee. My friend and I have had a trying experience — haven't we had a trying experience, Harry?

Sullivan

Very trying, Doctor!

Step into the security scan!

What, no tea?

Let me point out to you that you have no rights whatsoever. I have full authority to torture and kill any prisoner who does not comply absolutely with my orders. That is your first and last warning.

No tea, Harry.

They took down reams of note. Every bit of scientific gobbledygook I could think of. Technical jargon that even I didn't understand.

Sullivan

It'll keep their experts tied up for weeks!

Yes. And I learned a great deal more from them than they did from me.

Harry

[picks up chain, fascinated] Sarah, these chains are solid gold.

Sarah Jane

Harry, will you just shut up about your rotten gold!

Harry

Twenty-four carat, by the looks of it.

Sarah Jane

It's because of gold that we're in this mess.

Harry

Just thinking.

Sarah Jane

Well don't!

Harry

Gold's a very soft metal, isn't it, Sarah, so if we can find a decent bit of rock we might be able to file through.

Sarah Jane

Well, we can't just sit here glittering, can we!