“The Shakespeare Code” quotes from Doctor Who

[After travelling to 1599] But are we safe? Can we move around and stuff?

Of course we can. Why do you ask?

It's like in the films! You step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race!

[Bemused] I'll tell you what, then: don't...step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?

What if...I dunno! What if I kill my grandfather?!

Are you planning to?

No.

Well, then.

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light..."

I might use that.

You can't, it's someone else's.

Come on! We can all have a good flirt later!

Is that a promise, Doctor?

Oooh, 57 academics just punched the air!

So, magic and stuff. That's a surprise. It's all a little bit Harry Potter.

Wait 'til you read Book Seven. Oh, I cried.

[in the asylum] Do you honestly think this place is any good?

I've been mad. I've lost my mind. Fear of this place set me right again. It serves its purpose.

Mad in what way?

You lost your son.

My only boy. The Black Death took him. I wasn't even there.

I didn't know, I'm sorry.

It made me question everything. The futility of this fleeting existence. To be or not to be... Ooh. That's quite good.

You should write that down.

Hmm, maybe not. Bit pretentious?

Meh...