Doctor Who quotes

London! What a dump.

London's OK.

No it's not, it's a dump.

You spend an awful lot of time here, considering it's a dump.

I spend an awful lot of time being kidnapped, tortured, shot at, and exterminated. Doesn't mean I like it.

How did you survive?

Five rounds, rapid.

You just want cruelty to beget cruelty! You're not superior to people who were cruel to you, you're just a whole bunch of new, cruel people. A whole bunch of new, cruel people being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you! The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?

Why should we?

What is it that you actually want?

War.

Ah. Ah, right. And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want! What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play the violin? Who's going to make the violins? Well? Oh, you don't actually know, do you? Because, like every tantruming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want! So let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys and when it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers? How are you going to protect your glorious revolution… from the next one?

We'll win.

Oh, will you? Well, maybe. Maybe you will win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So come on. Break the cycle.

This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought, right there in front of you! Because it's always the same! When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: Sit — down — and — talk! Listen to me, listen, I just-- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind!

I will not change my mind.

Then you will die stupid! Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you can walk right out of that door and you could stand your revolution down.

No. I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it, I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go, after what I've done?!

You're all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable." Well, here's the unforeseeable: I forgive you! After all you've done… I forgive you.

You don't understand. You will never understand.

I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, d'you call this a war, this funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know! I did worse things than you could ever imagine, and when I close my eyes… I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight… till it burns your hand, and you say this: No one else will ever have to live like this! No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch!

Both boxes -- There's nothing in them. Just buttons.

Of course. And do you know how you know that? Because you've started to think like me. It's hell, isn't it? No one should have to think like that. And no one will. Not on our watch.

I don't understand how you could just forgive me.

Because I've been where you have. There was another box. I was gonna press another button. I was gonna wipe out all of my own kind, man woman and child, I was so sure I was right.

What happened?

Same thing that happened to you: I let Clara Oswald get inside my head. Trust me, she doesn't leave.

So what happened?

From the beginning of time? That’s a very long story.

We have to go after them!

Don't be ridiculous.

Doctor!

They're under my command: I owe it to them.

To die? They wouldn't thank you for that. Nor you, Clara. "To die, to die, Glamis hath murdered sleep, therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more."

What?

Shakespeare. He really knew his stuff. They all did: The ancients, the poets. All those sad songs, all those lullabies. Sleep is essential to every sentient being in the universe. But to humans — greedy, filthy, stupid humans? It's an inconvenience… to be bartered away!

What now? We can't stay in here. We're going to freeze to death. And we can't go back out there because the Sandmen will get us.

Sandmen?

Yeah, it's a good name. It fits, like the song. #Bom, bom, bom.#

No, you don't get to name things. I'm the Doctor. I do the naming.

Alright, Sorry.

It's like the Silurians all over again.

Okay, well, what would you prefer then? The Dustmen?

[beat] Sandmen.

[Talking about a baby] Bring the New Human. Or, don't bring the New Human, I'll just get distracted.

If you want your extremities to stay attached, stand absolutely still. If not, we can provide a small bag. You can take them home at the end.

[to Ashildr] Fix this. Fix it now.

It's not possible. I— I can't.

Yes, it is. You can, and you will, or this street will be over. I'll show you and all your funny little friends to the whole laughing world. I'll bring UNIT, I'll bring the Zygons - give me a minute, I’ll bring the Daleks and the Cybermen. You will save Clara, and you will do it now, or I will rain hell on you for the rest of time!

Doctor, stop talking like that.

You can't.

I can do whatever the hell I like. You read the stories, you know who I am! And in all that time, did you ever hear anything about anyone who stopped me?

I know the Doctor. The Doctor would nev—

The Doctor is no longer here! You are stuck with me! And I will end you and everything you love.

Doctor, for God's sake, will you stop?!

No!

I did this, do you hear me? I did this. This is my fault.

I don't care!

Liar. You always care. Always have. Your reign of terror will end with the sight of the first crying child, and you know it.

No, I don't.

I do. Listen, if this is the last I ever see of you, please, not like this.

[to the Doctor] You. You listen to me. You're going to be alone now, and you're very bad at that. You're going to be furious, and you're going to be sad, but listen to me. Don't let this change you. No, listen. Whatever happens next, wherever she is sending you, I know what you're capable of. You don't be a warrior. Promise me. Be a Doctor.

What's the point of being a Doctor if I can't cure you?

Heal yourself. You have to. You can't let this turn you into a monster. So, I'm not asking you for a promise. I'm giving you an order. You will not insult my memory. There will be no revenge. I will die, and no one else, here or anywhere, will suffer.

What about me?

If there was something I could do about that, I would. I guess we're both just going to have to be brave.

What Clara said, about not taking revenge. You know why she said that?

She was saving you.

I was lost a long time ago. She was saving you. I'll do my best. But I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you.

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life and it begins a journey. Towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run. It will walk. You will rest. It will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long. You will sit too still or sleep too deep and when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.