Discover a collection of 100 memorable Doctor Who quotes in “Timey-Wimey Wisdom.” Immerse yourself in the world of the beloved Time Lord as you explore inspiring and entertaining words of wisdom from the Doctor. From iconic catchphrases to profound musings, this compilation captures the spirit of the show and will delight Whovians of all ages. Join us on a journey through time and space with these memorable Doctor Who quotes.
Doctor Who Quotes
‘“We’re all capable of the most incredible change. We can evolve while still staying true to who we are. We can honor who we’ve been and choose who we want to be next.” ‘,
‘ “For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about.”’,
‘“First thing’s first, but not necessarily in that order.” ‘,
‘“Love is not an emotion. It’s a promise.” ‘,
‘“You’re not gonna make the world any better by shouting at it!” ‘,
‘“Always take a banana to a party.” ‘,
‘ “Demons run when a good man goes to war,Night will fall and drown the sun. When a good man goes to war, Friendship dies and true love lies, Night will fall and the dark will rise. When a good man goes to war, Demons run, but count the cost. The battle’s won, but the child is lost.” ‘,
‘“There are things waiting in the darkness. Creatures of metal, fire, and blood. But he’s out there, burning through time, facing a thousand dangers across the stars, and never giving up. He looks like a man, but he’s a legend and his name is the Doctor. He’ll come back to save us and, this time, I’m going to be ready. Then, just like that… we’ll be gone.”’,
‘“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.”’,
‘“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!”’,
‘“When you love the Doctor, it’s like loving the stars themselves. You don’t expect a sunset to admire you back. And if I happen to find myself in danger, let me tell you, the Doctor is not stupid enough, or sentimental enough, and he is certainly not in love enough to find himself standing in it with me!” ‘,
‘“You’ll find that it’s a very small universe when I’m angry with you.”’,
‘“I looked into your eyes and I saw my worst fears. Weariness. Emptiness.”’,
‘“People like us, we go on too long. We forget what matters. The last thing we need is each other. We need the mayflies. You see the mayflies, they know more than we do. They know how beautiful and precious life is because it’s fleeting.”’,
‘“From the day they arrive on the planet, and blinking step into the sun, there’s more to see than can ever be seen, more to- wait that’s The Lion King.”’,
‘“How come “burbled” gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but “tulgy” doesn’t? Hm?”’,
‘“Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I’m sorry, but here’s the thing… I think you’re one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I’ve ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with.”’,
‘“I do think there’s always a way to put things right. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn’t eat breakfast; I wouldn’t leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.”’,
‘“Something pretty bad’s happening nearby in the space-time continuum. The TARDIS is a terrible rubbernecker — like a little old lady, she can’t resist slowing down for a gawp at a car crash in the next lane. Bless.”’,
‘“It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure, of course when it probably doesn’t count as a waste of time.”’,
‘“I’m not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.”’,
‘“Don’t worry, I’m shielding you. When we crashed here and it first attacked me, I was caught with my mental trousers down. Not anymore. Psychic force field’s intact. Belts and braces. Braces, by the way, are very cool.”’,
‘“I’m going to tell you a story about a man who travels, and everywhere he goes, he makes everyone’s lives better. I’m not that man. That man doesn’t exist. I wish he did. I’d believe in him.”’,
‘“Everything ends, and it’s always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that’s always happy. Be happy.”’,
‘“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit — without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.”’,
‘“The secret is not just to be stunning, which I find comes rather easily, to be honest. The tricky thing is getting exactly the right level of stun for the occasion.”’,
‘“I’m about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It’s important that I’m properly dressed.”’,
‘“I’ve remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means ‘noble valiant warrior’ and not ‘he who hits kittens with a hammer.’ You’d be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside…”’,
‘“Rose wasn’t ‘ordinary’. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her, ‘Here, I could give you the universe, but I’m not going to in case you get hurt? There’s all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?”‘,
‘“Oh, the pointing again. They’re screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?”’,
‘“The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle.”’,
‘“Think you’ve seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me… nothing will ever be the same again!”’,
‘“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”’,
‘“Well, we’ve moved through the funfair a bit — we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.”’,
‘“I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.”’,
‘“Why do humans never do as they’re told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second thought, they shouldn’t, bad idea.”’,
‘“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”’,
‘“I am the bad wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them… in time and space. A message to lead myself here.”’,
‘“Don’t play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.”’,
‘“I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.”’,
‘“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.”’,
‘“We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s OK, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.”’,
‘“The only water in the forest is the River.”’,
‘“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek’s New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”’,
‘“Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below.”’,
‘“So is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?”’,
‘“Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.”’,
‘“You don’t want to take over the universe. You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it.”’,
‘“You should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.”’,
‘“Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you’re cross, in which case always use force!”’,
‘“You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine, but you really think they’re lying to make you feel better? Everything’s going to be fine.”’,
‘“I don’t know. I can’t tell the future I just work there.”’,
‘“Bow ties are cool.”’,
‘“There’s something that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.”’,
‘“Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.”’,
‘“Nine hundred years of time and space, and I’ve never been slapped by someone’s mother.”’,
‘“Do what I do. Hold tight and pretend it’s a plan!”’,
‘“The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.”’,
‘“Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do, anyway.”’,
‘“Never be certain of anything. It’s a sign of weakness.”’,
‘“There’s always something to look at if you open your eyes!”’,
‘“Everything’s got to end sometime. Otherwise, nothing would ever get started.”’,
‘“Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing — only there is a winner.”’,
‘“We had chips. So anyway, planet gone. All rocks and dust, but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars. Soon as the Earth burns up, ooh, they get all nostalgic, big revival movement. They find this place. Same size as the Earth. Same air, same orbit. Lovely. The call goes out, the humans move in.”’,
‘“In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.”’,
‘“Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.”’,
‘“Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well… not yet. Give me time and a crayon.”’,
‘“The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world, or a relationship… Everything has its time. And everything ends.”’,
‘“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and… bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.”’,
‘“If you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.”’,
‘“Come on, Rory! It isn’t rocket science, it’s just quantum physics!”’,
‘“A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.”’,
‘“Superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just do not go together.”’,
‘“Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.”’,
‘“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”’,
‘“There’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”’,
‘“What’s the point in two hearts if you can’t be a bit forgiving now and then?”’,
‘“If we’re going to die, let’s die looking like a Peruvian folk band.”’,
‘“Never run when you’re scared.”’,
‘“Good men don’t need rules.”’,
‘“Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.”’,
‘“One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”’,
‘“Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink.”’,
‘“Amy Pond, there’s something you’d better understand about me ‘cause it’s important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box!”’,
‘“Hermits United. We meet up every 10 years, swap stories about caves. It’s good fun… for a hermit.”’,
‘“Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.”’,
‘“Never cruel or cowardly. Never give up, never give in.”’,
‘“You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”’,
‘“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”’,
‘“You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.”’,
‘“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”’,
‘“I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”’,
‘“Rule 1: The Doctor lies.”’,
‘“Do what I do. Hold tight and pretend it’s a plan!”’,
‘“The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.”’,
