Doctor Who Quotes

“Fear is only a disadvantage if you want to attack-it's brilliant if all you want to do is run away.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“Fear is only a disadvantage if you want to attack-it's brilliant if all you want to di is run away.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“Maybe he’ll visit tomorrow,’ she had said, her hand tight on his. ‘Maybe tomorrow,’ he had smiled, closing his eyes. She could never decide, over the years, if those were the best or the saddest last words.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“Time travel. One-man time travel, basically. Pop the strap on your wrist, and off you go. Top security rating of any item here—no one can know we have this, not even our allies.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Are you serious? Americans with the ability to rewrite history? You’ve seen their news coverage.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“You can only really tell how sad someone is when they smile.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“I flew round space and time, like a maniac. I smiled and laughed and whirled,
and hoped no one would see through my disguise. I helped where I could, I
fought where it counted and I made peace happen wherever I walked. I saved
life after life, and I knew I was trying to make up for every one I’d taken. More
than anything, I was trying not to count how many children had been on
Gallifrey that day.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“Sometimes he missed the monochrome world of his first two incarnations. It had felt like a simpler, cleaner time; so many centuries had passed before he realised he’d just been colour blind.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“Serious students will know (and if you do not, it is my sadness to inform you) that one of the Petronellas died in the line of duty a few years later. No one has ever known which of them perished, and Petronella herselves is quite firm about never telling anyone. I say ‘herselves’ because another Earth resident Zygon took the fallen Petronella’s place, so that there could be two of them again. All that matters is this: Osgood lives—and so long as the fangirls stand guard on the gates of humanity, so will we.”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

“I said we’re not the same. Here’s why. All my life, every day, I’ve wished I was someone else. I’ve wanted to be Kate, or Sarah Jane Smith, or Amy Pond, or anyone really. But you’re a shape-shifter, you’ve been lots of other people—and you want to be me. I think that makes you a much better Petronella Osgood than I am. I think I’d like to be a better version. If”
― Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor