Olivia Sutton's Fanfic Journal

Hi all, for a reason why this is late, please see previous post.  Anyway, tonight's quotes are from the 5th and 6th Doctor eras of Doctor Who, Peter Davison and Colin Baker, respectively.

Various Doctor Who Quotes

 

 

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"I suppose, it's some sort of neutral environment, an isolated space, cut off from the rest of the universe."  --Nyssa, explaining the zero room
"He should have told me that's what he wanted- I'd have shown him Brisbane." --Tegan
"Castrovalva", BBC 1982

 

"That's the trouble with regeneration--you never quite know what you're going to get."  --the Doctor (Peter Davison), "Castrovalva", BBC, 1982

 

"Well, I suppose, I'll get used to it in time." --the Doctor (Peter Davison), "Castrovalva", BBC, 1982

 

"They make more weapons than food, and two-thirds of them are starving."  --Monarch (re: humanity), Doctor Who,  "Four to Doomsday.", BBC, 1982

 

"I've met kings, emperors, megalomaniacs, in my time."  --The Doctor (Peter Davision), "The Visitation", BBC, 1982

 

"Why are Earth people so parochial?"  --The Doctor (Peter Davision), "The Visitation", BBC, 1982

 

"I've never been able to reconcile the Terepitils love of art and beauty with their love of war."  --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The Visitation", BBC, 1982

 

"War is honourable, Doctor, even on this planet it is considered so." --Terileptil (Michael Leader
"Oh, I know, but by your own admission, these people are still primitive.  What's your excuse?"  The Doctor, in response.  (Peter Davidson), "The Visitation", BBC, 1982

 

"I feel as though you've just killed an old friend."  The Doctor, at the destruction of the Sonic Screwdriver, "The Visitation", BBC, 1982

 

"Shall we go outside?" --The Doctor (Peter Davison)
"Do you think that's wise?  Considering what we've just done to London?" --Nyssa (Sarah Sutton)
"Oh, that would have happened if we'd been there or not, all part of Earth's history." --The Doctor, "Black Orchid", BBC, 1982

 

"As a boy, I've always wanted to drive one." --The Doctor, referring to a steam engine, in "Black Orchid", BBC, 1982

 

"Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?" --The Doctor (to himself), "Black Orchid"

 

"Why would I attack you?  Have you done me any harm?" --The Doctor
"No," --Anne
"Then I have no reason to harm you.  And besides…"
"Besides what?" --Sir Robert
"Well, it wouldn't be cricket." --The Doctor
The Doctor (Peter Davison), Anne (Sarah Sutton, double role) in "Black Orchid", BBC, 1982

 

"I'm a Time Lord…I travel in time and space. I have a time machine.  You've read HG Wells?"  --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Black Orchid", BBC, 1982

 

"I'm not waiting around while you plot the course to your own destruction." --The Doctor, to Adric, prophetically in "EarthShock", BBC, 1982

 

"If my planet is being threatened, I'd like to do something to help." --Space Capt. Scott (James Warwick), in "EarthShock"

 

"Emotions have their uses." --The Doctor to Cyberman, "EarthShock", BBC, 1982

 

"They [emotions] also enhance life--when did you last have the pleasure of smelling a flower, watching a sunset, eating a well-prepared meal?" --The Doctor (Davison)
"These things are irrelevant."  The Cyber-leader
"For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about."  The Doctor in response, (Peter Davison), "EarthShock", BBC, 1982

 

"It's amazing…this thing is smaller on the inside than on the outside." --The Doctor,  re: the cargo hold of the Concord, "Time-Flight", *Doctor Who*, BBC, 1982

 

"I think I'm dreaming…" Roger Scobie, Flight Engineer (Keith Drinkel)
"Quite the reverse, Mr. Scobie, you've just woken up." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Time-Flight", *Doctor Who*, BBC, 1982

 

"Is that a reason for abandoning your fellow passengers?" --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Time-Flight", BBC, 1982

 

"I've always found domination such an unattractive prospect." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Time-Flight", BBC 1982

 

"I do not wish to believe, therefore I hallucinate, is that the philosophy of Darlington Man, Professor?" --The Doctor, "Time-Flight", BBC 1982

 

"You know how it is--you put things off for a day, next thing you know, its 100 years later." --The Doctor, referring to repairing the audio link-up on the TARDIS scanner, "Arc of Infinity",  BBC 1983

 

"I have a great deal to say." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Arc of Infinity",  BBC 1983

 

"Executing me will not alter the fact [that] there's a traitor at work on Gallifrey." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Arc of Infinity",  BBC 1983

 

"Our duty, if not our conscience is clear." Gallifreyan High Council Member, "Arc of Infinity",  BBC 1983

 

"No! Nyssa! I will not have blood spilt to save my life!" --The Doctor, "Arc of Infinity", BBC 1983

 

"In the reign of evil which followed they must have forgotten the most important thing of all-- that the Mara was something they themselves had blindly brought into being." --The Doctor (Davison), "Snakedance", BBC, 1983

 

"You won't succeed, in the end Evil never does." ? the Doctor, ? Snakedance

 

"He is said to be the best swordsman in France!" Medieval Lord, after the Doctor accepts a challenge
"Well, fortunately, we are in England!" The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The King's Demons"

 

"Just a twinge of cosmic angst." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The Five Doctors"

 

"The Doctor…wonderful chap--all of them."  The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), "The Five Doctors", BBC 1983

 

"I am being diminished, whittled away, piece by piece--a man is the sum of his memories, you know, a Time Lord even more so." --The Doctor, (Peter Davison), "The Five Doctors"

 

"A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about." --The Master (Anthony Ainley), "The Five Doctors"

 

"As you see, I'm armed, I could easily kill you if I wanted to." --The Master (Anthony Ainley)
"And not humiliate me first?  Oh, that isn't your style at all." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The Five Doctors", BBC, 1983

 

"What can we do against it?" --Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen)
"What I've always done, Sarah Jane, improvise." --The Doctor (Jon Pertwee), "The Five Doctors", BBC, 1983

 

"You mean you're deliberately choosing to go on the run from your own people? In a rackety old TARDIS?" --Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding)
"Why not? After all-- that's how it all started." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The Five Doctors", BBC, 1983

 

"You're alive!" --Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding)
"Alive, well, and trying to escape!" --Turlough (Mark Strickson), "Warriors of the Deep", BBC, 1984

 

"I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much.  The Silurians and Sea Devils are noble races.  They have skills and talents you pathetic humans can only dream about!" --The Doctor (Davison), "Warriors of the Deep", BBC, 1984

 

"Systems that could rebuild a civilization for us! Failure-proof technology."  --Scientist

"What happened to it all?" The Doctor (Davison)

"It failed--and nothing survived the crash." --Scientist, "Frontios", BBC, 1984

 

"If I had a spare millennium, I'd bring you up to date on time mechanics, unfortunately we have this lighting problem and a ward full of people needing medical attention." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Frontios", BBC, 1984

 

"I don't remember, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the future." --The Doctor (Davison), "The Caves of Androzani", BBC, 1984

 

"I tried keeping a diary once, chronological of course, but the trouble with time travel is--one never seems to find the time." --The Doctor, "The Caves of Androzani", BBC, 1984

 

"In times of war, the innocent die too." --General Chellek (Martin Cochrane), "The Caves of Androzani", BBC, 1984

 

"Curiosity's always been my downfall." --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "The Caves of Androzani"

 

"Of course, the irony is while you've been closing plants in the West you've been building them in the East, so if the unemployed were sent to the Eastern labor camps, a great many of them will be working for you again, only this time without payment." The President (David Neal) to Morgus, Chairman of Sirius Corp.,  "Caves of Androzani"

 

"The androids are programmed to kill humans, well, my physiology is quite different, the question is--will it know that?" --The Doctor (Peter Davison), "Caves of Androzani"

 

"But now death is my only friend, my constant and loving companion.  Can you feel it's cold presence?" The Governor (Martin Jarvis), "Vengeance on Varos"

 

"Truth is a very flexible commodity here on Varos, Peri, as long as things appear truthful, that's all that matters." The Doctor (Colin Baker), "Vengeance on Varos

 

"For without justice, peace and tolerance, we have no future." The Governor (Martin Jarvis), "Vengeance on Varos"

 

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?" --The Doctor (C. Baker), "The Two Doctors"

 

"Do try to keep out of my way in future and in past, there's a good fellow.  The time continuum should be big enough for both of us… just!" The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) "The Two Doctors"

 

"Nobody likes brain alteration."  --Peri, "Trial of a Time Lord: Mind-Warp" BBC 1986

 

"They put an ancient culture like the Earth's to the sword for the sake of a few miserable, filthy, scientific advances…" --The Doctor (Colin Baker), "Trial"

 

"In all my travelings throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators.  I should have stayed here.  The oldest civilisation… Dedecant, degenerate, and rotten to the core… 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!" --the Doctor (Colin Baker), "Trial of a Time-Lord"

 

"Unless we are prepared to sacrifice our lives for the good of all, then evil and anarchy will spread like the plague." --the Doctor (Colin Baker)

 

Enjoy!

Olivia Sutton