Four

The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)

Quotes

What's the point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes?

Would you like a jelly baby?

I tell you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about! The brontosaurus is large and placid! (falls over)

Can't? Can't? There's no such word as can't! It's a free cosmos.

You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.

In science - as in morality - the end never justifies the means.

HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!!!

You and I are scientists, professor. We purchase the right to experiment at the cost of total responsibility.

The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord.
Sarah Jane: Oh, I know you're a Time Lord.
The Doctor: You don't understand the implications... I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity...
Sarah Jane: What's that supposed to mean?
The Doctor: It means I've lived for something like 750 years.
Sarah Jane: All right, so you're middle aged!
The Doctor: Yes! About time I found something to do than run around after the Brigadier!

[standing outside the opened door, in the pouring rain]: Could you spare a glass of water?

If you're going to sit there wallowing in self-pity, I'll bite your nose.

[As the armed guards seize him and Sarah] That's right, grab us! We're very dangerous.

That's monstrous! Vaporisation without representation is against the constitution!

All right! I confess, I confess. I confess to you're being a bigger idiot than I thought.

I'm not as old as I used to be!

Killing me isn't going to help you. It isn't going to do me much good either...

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing.

Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard.

I'm the Doctor. Who are you, and why are you shooting at me?

Leela:You mean you can't control this thing?!
The Doctor:Of course I can control. (adds in an undertone as she looks at him dubiously) Nine times out of ten. All right, seven times out of ten. Five times out of ten...never mind!

You're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

Sleep is for tortoises!

The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog.

[Taps bone on a table, then sniffs it] Ah! Twelfth century!

[To a skull] Awww! Would you like a jelly baby? No, I don't suppose you would. Alas. Poor skull.

Guard of honour? You're not fit to guard a jelly baby! Would you like a jelly baby?

Romana: My name is Romanadvoratrelundar.
The Doctor: [sitting beside K9] I'm so sorry about that, is there anything we can do?

The Doctor: Ground rules. Rule one: Always do what I say. Rule two: Stay close to me, and rule three: Let me do all the talking. Do I make that perfectly clear?
Romana I: Couldn't make it clearer.
The Doctor: Good. [walks away, then comes back]One more thing—-your name.
Romana I: What about my name?
The Doctor: It's too long. By the time I've called out, 'Look out'—what's your name?
Romana I: Romanadvoratrelundar.
The Doctor: By the time I've called that out, you could be dead! I'll call you Romana.
Romana I: I don't like Romana.
The Doctor: It's either Romana or Fred.
Romana I: All right, call me Fred!
The Doctor: Good. Come on, Romana!

Romana I: Newton? Who's Newton?
The Doctor: Old Isaac. Friend of mine on Earth. Discovered gravity. Well, I say he discovered gravity, I had to give him a bit of a prod.
Romana I: What did you do?
The Doctor: Climbed up a tree.
Romana I: And?
The Doctor: Dropped an apple on his head.
Romana I: Ah, and so he discovered gravity?
The Doctor: No, no. He told me to clear off out of his tree. I explained it to him afterwards at dinner.

Would you mind not standing on my chest? My hat's on fire.

Look, I don't like to say "I told you so", but I told you so.

If you don't stop burning my scarf, you're going to have to kill me!

[incredibly enthusiastically] Oh, look! Rocks!

I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing.

Duggan, why is it that every time I start to talk to someone, you knock them unconscious?

I say; what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!

Stupid expression, 'stands to reason.' Why isn't it 'lie down to reason?' Much easier to reason lying down.

Oh don't listen to me. I never do.