Eric Foreman quotes from House

Foreman

Every slavemaster thought they were doing the black man a favour. 'Negro can't take care of themselves, so we'll put them to work. We'll give them four walls, a bed. We'll civilize the heathens.' Stop doing us favours. If you're right and we end up back in the jungle, it won't be on your head.

Dr. Foreman

[to Cameron] People who avoid commitment are people who know what a big thing it is.

Dr. Foreman

You'll save more people than I will. But I'll settle for killing less. Consider this my two weeks notice.

Foreman

[about Masters] She's brilliant, but new to the real world.

Foreman

Chemo won't make your life any better, but caring will. Enduring pain to do some good for someone you care about - isn't that what life is?

Dr. House

Everybody lies.

Dr. Cameron

Dr. House doesn't like dealing with patients.

Dr. Foreman

Isn't treating patients why we became doctors?

Dr. House

No, treating illnesses is why we became doctors. Treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable.

Dr. House

Thirty percent of all dads out there don't realize they're raising someone else's kid.

Dr. Foreman

From what I've read false paternity is more like ten percent.

Dr. House

That's what our moms would like us to believe.

Dr. Cameron

Who cares? If he got it from his parents they'd both be dead by now, can we get on with the differential diagnosis?

Dr. House

Fifty bucks says I'm right.

Dr. Foreman

I'll take your money.

Dr. House

Hit a nerve? Don't worry, Foreman, I'm sure the guy who tucked you in at night was your daddy.

Dr. Foreman

Make it a hundred.

Dr. Foreman

Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is always the best.

Dr. House

And you think one is simpler than two?

Dr. Cameron

I'm pretty sure it is, yeah.

Dr. House

Baby shows up. Chase tells you that two people exchange fluids to create this being. I tell you that one stork dropped the little tyke off in a diaper. Are you going to go with the two or the one?

Dr. Foreman

I think your argument is specious.

Dr. House

I think your tie is ugly.

Dr. Foreman

[Referring to Dr. House] He's really talking to a patient.

Dr. Chase

I don't know who I am any more.

Dr. Chase

[Referring to Dr. House] He likes crazy people. He likes the way they think.

Dr. Foreman

They think... badly. That's the definition of... crazy.

Dr. Chase

They're not boring. He likes that.

Dr. Foreman

Why are you riding me?

Dr. House

It's what I do...has it gotten worse lately?

Dr. Foreman

Yeah. Seems to me.

Dr. House

Really. Well, that rules out the race thing. 'Cause you were just as black last week.

Dr. Foreman

The kid was just taking his AP calculus exam when all of a sudden he got nauseous and disoriented.

Dr. House

That's the way calculus presents.

Dr. Cameron

I don't have the right to show interest in someone?

Dr. Foreman

You absolutely do, and I absolutely have the right to humiliate you for it.

Dr. Cameron

[Referring to Dr. House] He agreed to go on a date with me.

Dr. Foreman

A date? Date, dinner and a movie, naked and sweaty date?

Dr. Cameron

He only committed to the first two.

Dr. Wilson

Do you think he was dead? Do you think those experiences were real?

Dr. House

Define real. They were real experiences. What they meant... Personally, I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see, visions, this patient saw. They're all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.

Dr. Foreman

You choose to believe that?

Dr. House

There's no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.

Dr. Cameron

You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?

Dr. House

I find it more comforting to believe that this isn't simply a test.