“Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy's value is your value. That's what defines an age. That's what defines a species.”

“Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish. Love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.”

“Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall.”

“I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.”

“Do you know what thinking is? It’s just a fancy word for changing your mind.”

“You know how it is; you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it’s a hundred years later.”

“Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight? What could possibly go wrong?”

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do!”

ACE: Master? Who's he?

DOCTOR: An evil genius. One of my oldest and deadliest of enemies.

ACE: Do you know any nice people? You know, ordinary people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the galaxy?

“Now I'll never know if I was right.”

“Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale? Run!”

“Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness... I find that good!”

“I've seen entire species destroyed, civilisations left in ruins. I've witnessed solar systems vanish in the twinkling of an eye. I've seen things that would freeze your blood. So don't threaten me, don't ever threaten me.”

“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.”

“I am the Doctor. I'm coming to find you, and I will never, ever stop.”

“I can't! Why is it always me? Why is it never anybody else's turn? Can't I just lose? Just this once?”

“Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?”

“I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.”

“I'm a doctor. But probably not the one you're expecting.”

OHILA: We restored you to life, but it's a temporary measure. You have a little under four minutes.

DOCTOR: Four minutes? That's ages. What if I get bored? I need a television, couple of books, anyone for chess? Bring me knitting.

“Charley, C'Rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly. Friends, companions I've known, I salute you. And Cass, I apologise. Physician, heal thyself.”

“Regeneration in my case is a swift but volcanic experience. A kind of violent biological eruption in which the body cells are displaced, changed, renewed and rearranged. There are bound to be side-effects.”

“Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.”

“We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”

(Talking about Missy)

BILL: She's a murderer.

DOCTOR: Enjoying your bacon sandwich?

BILL: Why?

DOCTOR: Because it had a mummy and a daddy. Go tell a pig about your moral high ground.

BILL: So, the Time Lords, bit flexible on the whole man-woman thing, then, yeah?

DOCTOR: We're the most civilised civilisation in the universe. We're billions of years beyond your petty human obsession with gender and its associated stereotypes.

BILL: But you still call yourselves Time Lords?

DOCTOR: Yeah. Shut up.

“Without hope. Without witness. Without reward.”

PERKINS: You know, Doctor, I can't tell if you're a genius or just incredibly arrogant.

DOCTOR: Well, ah, on a good day, I'm both.

“Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose.”

“You feel that pounding in your heart? That tightness in the pit of your stomach? The blood rushing to your head, do you know what that is? That's adventure. The thrill and the fear, and the joy of stepping into the unknown. That's why we're all here, and that's why we're alive!”

“I’ve been too methodical recently, I think. Setting coordinates and things, actually deciding where we want to go. I’ve been getting far too safe and predictable these last few incarnations. Do you know I once traveled for centuries without ever knowing where I’d materialize next?”

DOCTOR: Wilfred Mott. Oh, now I feel better. Now nothing is wrong, nothing in the whole wide world! Hello, me old soldier!

WILF: I never thought I'd see you again after all these years. Oh, Doctor, that lovely face! It's like springtime.

“There's one thing I always meant to ask Jack. Back in the old days, I wanted to know about that Doctor of his. The man who appears out of nowhere and saves the world. Except sometimes he doesn't. All those times in history when there was no sign of him, I wanted to know why not. But I don't need to ask any more. I know the answer now. Sometimes the Doctor must look at this planet and turn away in shame.”

DOCTOR: It's my back.

RIVER: Your back?

DOCTOR: Yeah, my back's playing up. It simply refuses to carry the weight of an entirely pointless stratum of society who contribute nothing of worth to the world and crush the hopes and dreams of working people.

DOCTOR: My entire understanding of physical space has been transformed! Three-dimensional Euclidean geometry has been torn up, thrown in the air and snogged to death! My grasp of the universal constants of physical reality has been changed forever!

DOCTOR: Sorry. I've always wanted to see that done properly.

RIVER: Does sarcasm help?

DOCTOR: Wouldn't it be a great universe if it did?

DOCTOR: You look, er, amazing.

RIVER: Doctor, you have no idea whether I look amazing or not.

DOCTOR: Well, you've moved your hair about, haven't you?

RIVER: Well done. It's very sweet of you to try.

STRAX: Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.

DOCTOR: No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.

MANTON: You what?

DOCTOR: Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run Away. I want children laughing outside your door, because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away. And, when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name. Oh, look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.

DALEK: Your appearance corresponds with the Time Lord known as "The Doctor". You are the enemy of the Daleks!

DOCTOR: It's the first line on my CV. Current Employment - The Oncoming Storm.

CHARLEY: I'm alright. What was that?

DOCTOR: Something very large landing on the houses across the street.

CHARLEY: Yes, but what very large something?

DOCTOR: I shall find out using my super-Time-Lord-powers of "looking out of the window."

VALARIE: You mean out there right now there are families like mine, under threat from terrible things?

DOCTOR: Loads of them, unfortunately

VALARIE: And we can save them?

DOCTOR: We can try. It’s all we can do. And sometimes it’s enough.

VALARIE: Then yeah. I’m in.

DOCTOR: Well then. Welcome aboard, Valarie.

(Inside the TARDIS)

VALARIE: How does she work?

DOCTOR: Big bit fits inside the small bit. It’s like an optical illusion except with dimensions and not an illusion, so nothing like an optical illusion I suppose.

SEVENTH DOCTOR: Do you know, talking to yourself is often thought to be the first sign of madness?

SIXTH DOCTOR: Yes. But a little madness helps, don’t you think?

NARDOLE: Are you having an emotion?

DOCTOR: I know I can help her.

NARDOLE: Yeah. Look at that face, he's having an emotion. Yeah. Yes, look at that bit, yeah, he's doing emotions.

DOCTOR: Oh, look, Bill, it's Nardole. What a lovely surprise. I thought I sent you to Birmingham for a packet of crisps. 


NARDOLE: Yeah, I saw through your cunning ruse. 


DOCTOR: Yes, well, if you will go thinking for yourself. What do you want? 


NARDOLE: I was given strict instructions to keep you at the university. 


DOCTOR: Who by?


NARDOLE: You.


DOCTOR: Well, you're not doing a very good job, are you? I'll overlook it this once. 


NARDOLE: Do you know what this is? 


DOCTOR: If it's not crisps, you're sacked.

DOCTOR: The King's just died. How very convenient.

TURLOUGH: Not for him.

VALARIE: Tell me why then. Why did they have to die?

DOCTOR: So they and countless others wouldn’t die in agony later. So that the universe could heal.

VALARIE: Hmmm. If you were a monster, I’d leave. No, that’s a lie - er - I’d try and stop you. But you don’t sound like a monster.

DOCTOR: Thanks very much

VALARIE: Having to make a call like that. To save a universe that sick. Sounds like you’re a doctor.

“If this universe has taught me anything, it's that you should always hold onto every moment you can, every hour, every minute, every second. Even when all hope is gone, you should still cling on, because you can never know what fresh hope the future may bring.”

NYSSA: If we got the TARDIS working properly again, do you think it would stop landing us in danger all the time?

DOCTOR: Oh Nyssa, I do hope not.

ACE: Oh, "No coloured" signs in 1963, "Pakis out" and petrol bombs in my time - now it's the future and it's ethnic cleansing. Nothing changes, does it?

DOCTOR: Forty years ago, Harper wouldn't even have been out of the ordinary. It does change, you know. Never completely, never all at once, but it does.

DOCTOR: Paul Tanner, congratulations, you're today’s lucky winner. Ace, tell the man what he’s won.

ACE: A complete set of explanations from the Professor here. And you have no idea what a rare and precious thing that is.

DOCTOR: Do you want a dangerous fugitive staying in your flat?

PAUL: Of course not.

DOCTOR: Well then, don’t upset him and he'll be a nice fugitive staying in your flat.

EVELYN: You must have a name.

DOCTOR: Sometimes it seems like I must. At those times I become yet another member of the great Smith clan. Doctor John Smith, in fact. But as I am going to save your life, you can call me The Doctor. And the sooner I get started, the better.

DOCTOR: Clara, why don't I have a radio in the TARDIS?

CLARA: You took it apart and used the pieces to make a clockwork squirrel.

TEGAN: I'm not coming with you.

DOCTOR: I beg your pardon?

TEGAN: I'm tired of it.

DOCTOR: What's the matter?

TEGAN: A lot of good people have died today. I think I'm sick of it.

DOCTOR: You think I wanted it this way?

TEGAN: No. It's just that I don't think I can go on.

DOCTOR: You want to stay on Earth.

TEGAN: My Aunt Vanessa said, when I became an air stewardess, if you stop enjoying it, give it up.

DOCTOR: Tegan

TEGAN: It's stopped being fun, Doctor. Goodbye. Turlough.

TEGAN: Oh, great. You make it sound like a shopping list, ticking off things as you go. Aren't you forgetting something rather important? Adric is dead.

NYSSA: Tegan, please.

DOCTOR: We feel his loss as well.

TEGAN: Well, you could do more than grieve. You could go back.

NYSSA: Could you?

DOCTOR: No.

NYSSA: But surely the TARDIS is quite capable of-

TEGAN: We can change what happened if we materialise before Adric was killed.

DOCTOR: And change your own history?

TEGAN: Look, the freighter could still crash into Earth. That doesn't have to be changed. Only Adric doesn't have to be on board.

DOCTOR: Now listen to me, both of you. There are some rules that cannot be broken even with the TARDIS. Don't ever ask me to do anything like that again. You must accept that Adric is dead. His life wasn't wasted. He died trying to save others, just like his brother, Varsh. You know, Adric had a choice. This is the way he wanted it.

TEGAN: We used to fight a lot. I'll miss him.

NYSSA: So will I.

DOCTOR: And me. But he wouldn't want us to mourn unnecessarily.

K-MASTER: You will obey me.

PERI: No.

K-MASTER: I am the Master!

PERI: So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can.

TURLOUGH: Tegan, no!

(The Doctor floats to the surface, face down.)

TEGAN: Doctor!

TURLOUGH: There's nothing we can do.

TEGAN: We can't just leave him.

TURLOUGH: Face it, Tegan. He's drowned.

(The Doctor sinks below the surface again.)

(Miss Quill reading The Hunger Games)

MISS QUILL: Did this really happen?

“How do we find the index file? Of course, if we had an index file, we could look it up in the index file, under index file. What am I saying? I'm talking nonsense.”

DOCTOR: Cheer up. Look, there's a mouse.

CHARLEY: I am deeply cheered.

DOCTOR: I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro Nine, have you?

ACE: What if I had?

DOCTOR: Naturally you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?

ACE: Of course not. I'm a good girl. I do what I'm told.

DOCTOR: Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.

“It always feels like she’s come home whenever we pop back here. To the 1960’s I mean, not to London airport.”

BENNETT: Wait, you're going to go back in time? How do you do that?

DOCTOR: Extremely well.

NYSSA: I thought we couldn't change history.

DOCTOR: This place. All decay and despair. It feels like an end. Yet you and I know what's coming afterwards. So it's not an ending. Just an alternative.

NYSSA: So we can't change history.

DOCTOR: Who says? I think history's old enough to take care of itself.

“My Granddaughter, Susan! My friend Adric, who gave his life trying to save others! I have great faith in these people, whatever your name is, and if there's one thing you can count on in this turbulent and uncertain universe it's that I'll never allow any of them to come to harm if I can possibly... help it!”

DOCTOR: Most armies would notice that they were fighting smoke and shadows, but not this lot, Ruby. You know why? Cos they have faith.

MUNDY: Shut up.

DOCTOR: Faith. The magic word that keeps you never having to think for yourself. Just surrender, Mundy. Just stop, and it's all over.

MUNDY: Prove it.

DOCTOR: What, seriously? Now you need proof, faith gyal?

DOCTOR: Oh, yes! We are in Wales. Spectacular!

RUBY: How can you tell?

DOCTOR: Oh... That smell. That green. That coastline, Ruby. Oh, the rocks and the water, it never ends. The war between the land and the sea.

“I can't think of a synonym for keeping your distance. I suppose, to coin a new word, in Latin, it would be semper distans. Always distant. She's semper distans to you.”

SUSAN Q: I woke up one morning.

ACE: I know that song.

SUSAN Q: There's a million blues songs start like that. But I did wake up one morning, and suddenly something was very clear. I couldn't go on smiling. Smiling while my friends disappeared, wearing this uniform and smiling and trying to pretend I'm something I'm not. Trying to pretend that I'm happy. Better to let it end. Better to just relax and let it happen. I woke up one morning and I realised it was all over.

ACE: Look, I'm sorry.

SUSAN Q: I think we'll abandon our rehearsal.

ACE: I'm not Happiness Patrol material anyway. They stand for everything I hate. Like you said, smiling all the time, smiling when it doesn't mean anything. I'm not one of them. I can't play an instrument, I can't dance, I can't sing.

SUSAN Q: No, but there is something you might be very good at.

ACE: Oh, yeah?

SUSAN Q: A disappearing act.

ACE: What do I have to do?

SUSAN Q: It's simple. I give you this key, then I close my eyes, and when I open them, you've gone.

DOCTOR: It wouldn’t work as well with say, Elvis.

NYSSA: Who’s Elvis?

DOCTOR: I’ll explain later.

“ (Blithely) Yes, I imagine so. It's quite clear that Frederick brought the car into the house, ran himself over with it, and put it back outside before he finally expired”

DOCTOR: It's as if his bones have disintegrated.

NARDOLE: Ooo. What could do that?

DOCTOR: A complete and total absence of any kind of sunlight.

NARDOLE: Death by Scotland.

TURLOUGH: We're running out of places to run.

TEGAN: The story of our lives.

FISHER KING: You will be a strong beacon. How many ghosts can I make of you?

DOCTOR: You know, you've got a lot in common with the Tivoleans. You'll both do anything to survive. They'll surrender to anyone. You will hijack other people's souls and turn them into electromagnetic projections. That will to endure. That refusal to ever cease. It's extraordinary. And it makes a fella think. Because you know what? If all I have to do to survive is tweak the future a bit, what's stopping me? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The ripple effect. Maybe it will mean that the universe will be ruled by cats or something, in the future. But the way I see it, even a ghastly future is better than no future at all. You robbed those people of their deaths, made them nothing more than a message in a bottle. You violated something more important than Time. You bent the rules of life and death. So I am putting things straight. Here, now, this is where your story ends.

STOTZ: All right, snoop. Hands in the air and over here.

DOCTOR: Why?

STOTZ: Because I'll kill you if you don't.

DOCTOR: Not a very persuasive argument actually, Stotz, because I'm going to die soon anyway. Unless, of course

STOTZ: I'll give you to a count of three.

DOCTOR: Unless, of course, I can find the antidote. I owe it to my friend to try because I got her into this. So you see, I'm not going to let you stop me now!

STOTZ: Three!

(As the planet surface fills the screen, the Doctor shuts his eyes.)

“Whatever else happens, I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not.”

DOCTOR: You know Tegan, sometimes I wonder how well I'd get along without you.

TEGAN: Thank you.

DOCTOR: Probably quite alright, all things considered. Now, a fresh cup of tea would be terribly useful.

TEGAN: Yeah? Well, you know where the kitchen is.

DOCTOR: So, what are you going to do while I pop over and get her?

TEGAN: You must be kidding, you're not going in there without me.

DOCTOR: I don't want to argue with you Tegan.

TEGAN: Then don't. You can't leave me behind, we're in this together.

DOCTOR: You realise the danger?

TEGAN: Of course I do! And I get why you're worried, okay? But what happened to Adric, isn't going to happen to me.

DOCTOR: You don't know that.

TEGAN: I do know that I'm not staying here while you and Nyssa are in danger. So unless you plan on locking me up-

DOCTOR: Alright, alright.

IANTO: I love you.

JACK: Don't. Ianto? Ianto. Ianto, stay with me. Ianto, stay with me, please. Stay with me. Stay with me, please.

IANTO: Hey. It was good, yeah?

JACK: Yeah.

IANTO: Don't forget me.

JACK: Never could.

IANTO: A thousand year's time you won't remember me.

JACK: Yes, I will. I promise. I will. Ianto. Ianto? Don't go. Don't leave me, please. Please don't.

SKY: He's waited so long.

DOCTOR: He's waited so long.

SKY: In the dark.

DOCTOR: In the dark.

SKY: And the cold.

DOCTOR: And the cold.

SKY: And the diamonds.

DOCTOR: And the diamonds.

SKY: Until you came.

DOCTOR: Until you came.

SKY: Bodies so hot.

DOCTOR: Bodies so hot.

SKY: With blood.

DOCTOR: With blood.

SKY: And pain.

DOCTOR: And pain.

HUTCHINSON: Stop it? Are you mad? You speak treason.

(Hutchinson levels a pistol at the Doctor.)

DOCTOR: Fluently! Stop the games.

TARDIS: Friendship is standing shoulder to shoulder in the face of life and death. Friendship is there when love's candle has burned and gutted. Friendship stays loyal when the enemy is at the gates. Friendship is never sacrificed, never surrendered. I was your friend.

“What would you say if I were to tell you that I once destroyed an entire race? That I have led friends to their deaths, and caused numerous wars? That my intervention has led to peaceful races taking up arms, and good people having their faith or reason destroyed? Or because I failed to act, millions upon millions of people have been enslaved or killed? What if I had done all those things, but had always, always believed I was doing the right thing?”

“In all my travellings throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation, decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core. Ha! Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power, that's what it takes to be really corrupt.”