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DOCTOR: I suppose the best way to find out where you come from is to find out where you’re going, and then work backwards.

— Fourth Doctor, City of Death

DOCTOR: I say, what a wonderful butler. He's so violent.

— Fourth Doctor, City of Death

SCARLIONI: Yes, it would. So you stole the bracelet simply because it's pretty?

DOCTOR: Yes. Well, I think it is. Don't you?

SCARLIONI: Yes.

COUNTESS: My dear, I don't think he's as stupid as he seems.

SCARLIONI: My dear, nobody could be as stupid as he seems.

DOCTOR: Oh.

SCARLIONI: This interview is at an end.

DOCTOR: Romana?

ROMANA: Yes?

DOCTOR: You know, I think something very funny's going on. Do you remember that man who was following us? Well, he's standing behind me, poking a gun in my back.

DOCTOR: Can I ask you where you got these?

SCARLIONI: No.

DOCTOR: Right. Or how you knew they were here?

SCARLIONI: No.

DOCTOR: They've been bricked up a long time.

SCARLIONI: Yes.

DOCTOR: I like concise answers.

SCARLIONI: Good.

DOCTOR: Duggan! Duggan, why is it that every time I start to talk to someone, you knock him unconscious?

DUGGAN: I didn't expect him to go down that easy.

DOCTOR: Well, if you don't understand heads, you shouldn't go about hitting them.

ROMANA: That equipment of Kerensky's wouldn't work effectively as a time machine.

DUGGAN: It wouldn't.

ROMANA: You can have two adjacent time continuums running at different rates.

DUGGAN: You can.

ROMANA: But without a field interface stabiliser, you can't cross from one to the other.

DUGGAN: You can't.

TANCREDI: I can see that you are a dangerously clever man, Doctor. I think it's time we conducted this conversation somewhat more formally.

DOCTOR: Oh, thank you.

TANCREDI: Hold him here while I collect the instruments of torture. If he wags his tongue, confiscate it.

DOCTOR: How can I talk if you confiscate my...

TANCREDI: You can write, can't you?

(On the train.)

ROMANA: Where are we going?

DOCTOR: Are you talking philosophically or geographically?

ROMANA: Philosophically.

DOCTOR: Then we're going to lunch. I know a little place that does a wonderful bouillabaisse. Do you like bouillabaisse?

ROMANA: Mmm, bouillabaisse, yum-yum.

COUNTESS: I was rather under the impression that Mister Duggan was following me.

DOCTOR: Ah. Well, you’re a beautiful woman, probably, and Duggan was trying to summon up the courage to ask you out to dinner, weren’t you, Duggan?

(The Doctor and Romana are in Paris, on top of the Eiffel Tower)

DOCTOR: It's the only place in the world where one can relax entirely.

ROMANA: Mmm. That bouquet.

DOCTOR: What Paris has, it has an ethos, a life. It has-

ROMANA: A bouquet?

DOCTOR: A spirit all of its own. Like a wine, It has-

ROMANA: A bouquet.

DOCTOR: It has a bouquet. Yes. Like a good wine.