Through fifty years of time travel, the Doctor has rarely been lost for something to say and he does not mince his words when confronted by the evils of the universe.

Leafing through Cavan Scott and Mark Wright’s Wit, Wisdom and Timey-Wimey Stuff: The Quotable Doctor Who, CultBox has chosen 10 of the Time Lord’s most memorable comments about his foes…

 

On the Daleks:

‘Inside each of those shells is a living, bubbling lump of hate.’
(‘Death to the Daleks’)

‘I thought you’d run out of ways to make me sick… You think hatred is beautiful.’
(‘Asylum of the Daleks’)

‘It can do many things… But the thing it does most efficiently is exterminate human beings. It destroys them, without mercy, without conscience. It destroys them. Utterly. Completely.’
(‘The Power of the Daleks’).

‘The trouble with Daleks is, they take so long to say anything. I’ll probably die of boredom before they shoot me.’
(‘The Time of the Doctor’)

 

On the Cybermen:

‘You’ve no home planet, no influence, nothing. You’re just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship.’
(‘Revenge of the Cybermen’)

‘The trouble with Cybermen is they’ve got hydraulic muscles, and of course hydraulic brains to go with them.’
(‘Revenge of the Cybermen’)

 

On the Master:

‘We are an explosive combination. One day, one of us might blot the other out.’
(‘Survival’)

‘That’s my best enemy; he likes to be known as the Master, don’t you?’
(‘The Five Doctors’)

 

On confronting evil:

‘You know, my dear, there’s something very satisfying in destroying something that’s evil, don’t you think?’
(‘The Savages’)

‘There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought.’
(‘The Moonbase’)

 

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