Eleventh Doctor

The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy, you remember how sad theyre going to be and it breaks your heart. Because whats the point in them being happy now if theyre going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Moment: You know the sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning? That sound brings hope wherever it goes. To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone. However lost. Even you.

— Eleventh Doctor hope

The Doctor: So what about your mum and dad, then? Are they upstairs? I thought wed have woken them by now.

— Eleventh Doctor thought

The Doctor: Of course youre not! Youre not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of the box, man eats fish custard, and look at you! Just sitting there! So you know what I think?

— Eleventh Doctor man

The Doctor: But youre not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what youve got to ask is what happened to them?

— Eleventh Doctor man

The Doctor: Well, I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes.

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Doctor: Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy Pond, the girl who waited. Youve waited long enough.

— Eleventh Doctor sin

Amy Pond: When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was in the library.

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor: Amy Pond, theres something you better understand about me cause its important and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box.

— Eleventh Doctor life

Poem Girl: A horse and a man, above, below, One has a plan, but both must go, Mile after mile, above, beneath, One has a smile and one has teeth, Though the man above might say hello, Expect no love from the Beast Below.

— Eleventh Doctor love

The Doctor: Crying silently. I mean, children cry because they want attention, because theyre hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, its because they just cant stop. Any parent knows that.

— Eleventh Doctor children

The Doctor: Look, three options: One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years; Two, I kill everyone on this ship; Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can and then I find a new name, because I wont be The Doctor anymore.

— Eleventh Doctor pain

Amy: The Star Whale didnt come like a miracle all those years ago, it volunteered. You didnt have to trap it or torture it. That was all just you. It came because it couldnt stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old and really kind and alone-- your whole race dead, no future What could you do then? If you were that old and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldnt just stand there and watch children cry.

— Eleventh Doctor children

Amy: Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just just because you could?

— Eleventh Doctor you

Churchill: Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine, Doctor! Think of the lives that could be saved.

— Eleventh Doctor live

The Doctor: This war against the Nazis or your war against the rest of the universe? The war against all lifeforms that are not Dalek?

— Eleventh Doctor life

The Doctor: The question is, what do we do now? Either you turn off your clever machine or Ill blow you and you new paradigm into eternity.

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor: Youre bluffing! There isnt a sincere bone in your body-- there isnt a bone in your body.

— Eleventh Doctor sin

The Doctor: The writing the graffiti: Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords. There were days, there were many days, where these words could burn stars, raise up empires, and topple gods.

— Eleventh Doctor god

The Doctor: A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and Im supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesnt explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I havent actually thought of yet. Thats my day, thats what Im up to. Any questions?

— Eleventh Doctor life

River: Pulled from the ruins of Razbahan at the end of the last century. Its been in private hands ever since. Dormant, all that time.

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Doctor: No, its not a legend, its a quantum lock. In the sight of any living being, the Angels literaly cease to exist. Theyre just stone: the ultimate defense mechanism.

— Eleventh Doctor living

The Doctor: Didnt anyone ever tell you? Theres one thing you never put in a trap. If youre smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, theres one thing you never, ever put in a trap.

— Eleventh Doctor art

The Doctor: Achieve? Were not achieving anything. Were just hanging, its nice in here: consoles; comfy chairs; a forest hows things with you?

— Eleventh Doctor you

Angel Bob: The Angels are feasting, sir. Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world, and all the stars and worlds beyond.

— Eleventh Doctor power

Father Octavian: Our mission is to make this wreckage safe and neutralize the Angels. Until that is achieved—

— Eleventh Doctor age

The Doctor: Its a lot to take in, isnt it? Tiny box, huge room inside; whats that about? Let me explain

— Eleventh Doctor

Rory: After what happened with Prisoner Zero, Ive been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes

— Eleventh Doctor reading

The Doctor: How are you doing that? I am loving it! Youre like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls. And he was shorter will be shorter. Im rambling.

— Eleventh Doctor light

The Doctor: Oh, look at you both. Five years later, and you havent changed a bit! Apart from age, and size

— Eleventh Doctor art

The Dream Lord: If you die in the dream, you wake up in reality. Healthy recovery in next to no time. Ask me what happens if you die in reality.

— Eleventh Doctor time

Amy: Ah. Here we go. Ah, my boys, my poncho boys. If were going to die, lets die looking like a Peruvian folk band.

— Eleventh Doctor boys

The Dream Lord: Friends? Is that the right word for the people you acquire? Friends are people you stay in touch with. Your friends never see you again once theyve grown up. The old man prefers the company of the young, does he not?

— Eleventh Doctor people

The Doctor: Oh, look, a big mining thing. Oh, I love a big mining thing. See? Way better than Rio. Rio doesnt have a big mining thing.

— Eleventh Doctor love

Amy: Let me out. Can anyone hear me?! Im alive in here! Let me out! I know youre out there. My name is Amy Pond and you better get me the hell out of here or, so help me, Im gonna kick your backside!

— Eleventh Doctor live

The Doctor: Really? No. Last of the species, the Klempari Defence. As an interrogation defence, its a bit old hat, Im afraid.

— Eleventh Doctor real

The Doctor: No. Youre really not. Because Im the last of my species and I know how it sits in a heart. So dont insult me.

— Eleventh Doctor art

The Doctor: There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Doctor: No. They werent part of your world. This is different, this is your own history changing!

— Eleventh Doctor art

The Doctor: Its going be hard, but you can do it, Amy! Tell me about Rory, eh? Fantastic Rory! Funny Rory! Gorgeous Rory! Amy, listen to me. Do exactly as I say. Amy, please keep concentrating. You can do this!

— Eleventh Doctor funny

Doctor: I’ve seen many things, my friend, but you’re right: nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see.

— Eleventh Doctor man

Dr Black: Well big question, but to me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time: The most beloved; his command of colour; the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.

— Eleventh Doctor love

The Doctor: 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 or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.

— Eleventh Doctor life

The Doctor: Paris in the 18th century. No, hang on, thats not recent is it? 17th? No no, 20th. Sorry, Im not used to doing it in the right order.

— Eleventh Doctor right

The Doctor: The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And thats the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

— Eleventh Doctor time

River: I have questions, but number one is this: What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?

— Eleventh Doctor you

River: Not yet. Your systems are still restoring, which means your shield density is compromised. One alpha-meson burst through your eye stalk would kill you stone dead.

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor: Amelia, from now on, I shall be leaving the kissing duties to the brand new Mr. Pond!

— Eleventh Doctor sin

The Doctor: Ah, yes, blimey, sorry. Christmas eve on a rooftop, I saw a chimney my whole brain just went “What the hell?” Don’t worry. The fat fella will be doing the rounds later. I’m just scoping out the general chimney-ness. Yes. Nice size. Good traction. Big tick.

— Eleventh Doctor action

The Doctor: Oh, what’s this then? I love this. A big flashy lighty thing. That’s what brought me here. Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. Give me time. And a crayon.

— Eleventh Doctor love

The Doctor: Nobody important? Blimey, thats amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and Ive never met anybody who wasnt important before.

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Doctor: Because if I was climbing out of the window, Id be going in the wrong direction. Pay attention.

— Eleventh Doctor win

The Doctor: Im being extremely clever up here and theres no one to stand around looking impressed! Whats the point in having you all?

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor: Im going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street-level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve Jammie Dodgers, and a fez.

— Eleventh Doctor coffee

The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesnt mind shooting people. I shouldnt like that. Kinda do, a bit.

— Eleventh Doctor people

The Doctor: I know youre team players and everything, but shell definitely kill the first three of you.

— Eleventh Doctor hell

The Doctor: And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence! You just raised an army against yourself! And now, for a thousand generations, youll be ordering them to destroy you every day. How fast can you run? Because todays the day the human race throw you off their planet. They wont even know theyre doing it. I think, quite possibly, the word youre looking for right now is Oops. Run! Guys, I mean us! Run!

— Eleventh Doctor self

The Doctor: Safe? No! Of course youre not safe! Theres about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world, but if you want to pretend youre safe just so you can sleep at night, then, OK, youre safe. But youre not really.

— Eleventh Doctor world

The Doctor: Okay, groovy. So youre just not pirates today — weve managed to bag us a ship with a demon popping in. Very efficient. I mean, if somethings going to kill you, its nice that it drops you a note to remind you.

— Eleventh Doctor mind

The Doctor: And the guns back. Youre big on the gun thing, arent you? Freud would say youre compensating. Ever met Freud? No. Comfy sofa.

— Eleventh Doctor you

Idris: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, thats it. Names are funny. Its me. Im the TARDIS.

— Eleventh Doctor funny

The Doctor: No, youre not! Youre a bitey mad lady! The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box!

— Eleventh Doctor you

Idris: Yes, thats me: a Type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console, you said—

— Eleventh Doctor time

Idris: Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?

— Eleventh Doctor lies

Idris: So much bigger on the inside. Im Oh, what is that word?! Its so big! So complicated. Its so sad

— Eleventh Doctor sad

Idris: Youre like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.

— Eleventh Doctor you

Idris: Theres a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?

— Eleventh Doctor past

The Doctor: You know, since were talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just wanna say, you know, you have never been very reliable!

— Eleventh Doctor sin

The Doctor: Uh, Amy. This is well shes my TARDIS. Except shes a woman. Shes a woman, and shes my TARDIS.

— Eleventh Doctor man

The Doctor: Yes, its insane. And its about to get even more insanerer. Is that a word? Show yourself! Right now!

— Eleventh Doctor self

Amy: Doctor! We are trapped in here and Rorys out there with them. Hello! We cant get to the TARDIS and we cant even leave the island.

— Eleventh Doctor hell

The Doctor Ganger: Ive reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow. Im the— would you like a— Doctor Doctor Im Im the

— Eleventh Doctor anger

Amy: No, no— but youre fine and everything, but hes The Doctor— no offense: being almost the Doctor is pretty damn impressive.

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor Ganger: I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

— Eleventh Doctor hope

The Doctor: Why? Its all the eyes say: Why? I can feel them—as they work each day knowing the time was coming for them to be thrown away again— not again— please. And then they are destroyed, and they feel death and all they can say is why?

— Eleventh Doctor death

{The troops all cock their weapons and point them at the Doctor, and the Headless Monks charge their energy swords.]

— Eleventh Doctor words

Dorium Maldovar: Theyve been scanning her since she was born. I think they found what they were looking for.

— Eleventh Doctor sin

Vastra: Youve told me about your people. They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the Time Vortex. The Untempered Schism?

— Eleventh Doctor time

River: This was exactly you. All this, all of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think youd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? Doctor: the word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word doctor means mighty warrior. How far youve come. And now theyve taken a child. The child of your best friends. And theyre going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love in fear of you.

— Eleventh Doctor love

The Doctor: Well, she did. And then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I’d say that was mixed signals.

— Eleventh Doctor live

The Doctor: Pantophobia. Not fear of pants, though, if thats what youre thinking. Its the fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case.

— Eleventh Doctor fear

The Doctor: When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Daleks New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

— Eleventh Doctor love

Alex: No one is going to tell us how to run our lives. I dont care who you are, or what wheels have been set in motion — well sort it.

— Eleventh Doctor live

The Doctor: It means Ive come a long way to get here, Alex, a very long way. George sent a message — a distress call, if you like. Whatevers inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful, that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space.

— Eleventh Doctor fear

The Doctor: Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire, through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought, and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? Theyre old eyes and one thing I can tell you, Alex: monsters are real.

— Eleventh Doctor universe

The Doctor: Should we? Well, gotta open the cupboard, havent we? Of course we have. Come on, Alex. Alex, come on. How else will we ever find out whats going on here?

— Eleventh Doctor will

The Doctor: Monsters, yeah. Well thats what I do. Breakfast, dinner, and tea. Fight the monsters! So this, this is just an average day at the office for me.

— Eleventh Doctor age

The Doctor: Look. Wooden chicken. Cup, saucers, plates, knives, forks. Fruit. Chickens wood. So. Were either inside the dolls house or this is a refuge for dirty posh people who eat wooden food. Or termites. Giant termites trying to get on the property ladder. No, Thats possible. Is that possible?

— Eleventh Doctor people

Older Amy: Right, okay, this is big news. This is temporal earthquake time. Im now officially changing my own future. Hold on to your spectacles. In my past I saw my future-self refuse to help you. Im now changing that future and agreeing. Every Law of Time says that shouldnt be possible.

— Eleventh Doctor time

The Doctor: Yes, except sometimes, knowing your own future is what enables you to change it. Especially if youre bloody-minded, contradictory, and completely unpredictable.

— Eleventh Doctor time

Older Amy: The look on your face when you carried her. Me. Her. When you carried her away. You used to look at me like that. Id forgotten how much you loved me. Id forgotten how much I loved being her. Amy Pond, in the TARDIS — with Rory Williams.

— Eleventh Doctor love

Older Amy: If you love me, dont let me in. Open that door, I will— Ill come in. I dont want to die. I wont bow out bravely—Ill be kicking, screaming, fighting—to the end.

— Eleventh Doctor love

Older Amy: I love you, too. Dont let me in. Tell Amy, your Amy: Im giving her the days—the days with you, the days to come, the days I cant have. Take them, please. Im giving my days.

— Eleventh Doctor love

The Doctor: OK, this is bad. At the moment I dont know how bad, but certainly were three buses, a long walk, and eight quid in a taxi from good.

— Eleventh Doctor men

Rory: Sorry. Last time I said something like that, you hit me with your shoe. And you literally had to sit down and unlace it first.

— Eleventh Doctor time

Rita: You are a medical doctor, arent you? You havent just got a degree in cheese-making or something?

— Eleventh Doctor you

The Doctor: I cant save you from this. Theres nothing I can do to stop this. I stole your childhood and now Ive lead you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond. The girl who waited for me. Im not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And its time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, its time to stop waiting.

— Eleventh Doctor death

Amy: Dont tell me, this isnt Earth, that isnt a real house, and inside lives a goblin that feeds on indecision.

— Eleventh Doctor art

The Doctor: You havent seen the last of me. Bad Penny is my middle name. Seriously, the looks I get when I fill in a form, its

— Eleventh Doctor you

Amy: Even so, it cant happen like this. After what weve been through, Doctor everything. You cant just drop me off at my house and say goodbye like we shared a cab.

— Eleventh Doctor good

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