Doctor Who quotes

You have to hang up your travelling shoes and stop wandering sooner or later, don't you?

So I've been told. Personally, I just keep on wandering.

[As the robot clowns he built approach menacingly] You were a wonderful clown once: funny, inventive... I'm not helping you any more!

I've always found circuses a little... sinister.

You don't regret it, do you?

Giving up teaching?

Leaving United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.

No. My blood and thunder days are long past.

Ace

A missile convoy!

A nuclear missile convoy.

Ace

How can you tell?

It has a graveyard stench.

Among all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind.

Well done, Zbrigniev. Two civilians waltz up with a pair of antiquated pass cards and you let them in, why?

Sir...

You know something, what is it?

Off the record, sir?

Off the record.

When I served under Lethbridge-Stewart, we had a scientific advisor called the Doctor.

The man outside?

No, sir, but-

But?

He changed his appearance, several times.

A disguise...

No, sir. The word was he changed his whole physical appearance.

His whole appearance?

And his personality.

How can he be the same man if his appearance and personality have changed?

I don't know, sir.

What do you know, Zbrigniev?

Just that whenever this Doctor turns up....

Yes?

All hell breaks loose.

Tell them I've retired. Tell them I've decided to fade away.

[Discussing The Doctor] He has many many names. But in my reckoning he is Merlin.

You recognise my face then?

No. Not your aspect, but your manner that betrays you. Do you not ride the ship of time? Does it not deceive the senses; being larger within than without?

Ace

What's down there?

Don't ask me. I've only been excavating this site for ten years.

With any luck, a tunnel.

Ace

A dark mysterious one?

Probably.

Ace

Leading to unknown dangers?

Indubitably.

Ace

Oh, wicked.

Sir, we do not the situation here.

The situation, Lavel, is normal. And it doesn't get any worse than that.

A warrior, no less! How goes the day?

I've had better.

I am Morgaine, the sun-killer. Dominator of the thirteen worlds and battle queen of the S'Rax. What say you?

I am Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Surrender now and we can avoid bloodshed.

Oh dear. Women. Not really my field.

Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.

You've got enough weapons here to fight a war.

That's the general idea.

It'll be useless, Brigadier.

Not this time, Doctor. [Opens an ammo box and holds up a round to show The Doctor] Armour-Piercing, solid core with a Teflon coating; go through a Dalek.

A non-stick bullet.

UNIT's been very busy, Doctor. We've also got high-explosive rounds for Yetis and very efficient armour-piercing rounds for robots. And we've even got gold-tipped bullets for you-know-what.

No silver?

Silver bullets?

Well, you never know...

We know you of old Merlin; you will not kill.

I wouldn't count on it!

Come then, look me in the eye, end my life. [The Doctor struggles for a moment then releases Mordred] Ha! It is a weakness, this lack of spirit!

Try me.

[To Mordred via psychic link] Ware this man, Mordred, he is steeped in blood.