Top 100 Steven Moffat Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We’re all stories, in the end.”

— Steven Moffat

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2. “I’ll be a story in your head. But that’s OK. We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.”

— Steven Moffat

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3. “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.”

— Steven Moffat

4. “All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.”

— Steven Moffat

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5. “Demons run when a good man goes to war.”

— Steven Moffat

6. “Brainy’s the new sexy.”

— Steven Moffat

7. “There’s something that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.”

— Steven Moffat

8. “You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”

— Steven Moffat

9. “I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn’t have to end. I hate endings.”

— Steven Moffat

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

— Steven Moffat

11. “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.”

— Steven Moffat

12. “You should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.”

— Steven Moffat

13. “Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You’re just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.”

— Steven Moffat

14. “The Doctor: 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.”

— Steven Moffat

15. “An awful lot of storytelling isn’t really about making people understand – it’s about making people care.”

— Steven Moffat

16. “Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”

— Steven Moffat

17. “Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.”

— Steven Moffat

18. “Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.”

— Steven Moffat

19. “Never run when you’re scared. Rule 7.”

— Steven Moffat

20. “Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you’re busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.”

— Steven Moffat

21. “Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.”

— Steven Moffat

22. “There’s something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that’s what it’s all about.”

— Steven Moffat

23. “It’s a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.”

— Steven Moffat

24. “The Doctor: Doctor Song, you’ve got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The “He’s hot when he’s clever” face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance.”

— Steven Moffat

25. “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.”

— Steven Moffat

26. “Kathy Nightingale: What’s good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It’s happy for deep people.”

— Steven Moffat

27. “If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.”

— Steven Moffat

28. “Rule 1: The Doctor lies.”

— Steven Moffat

29. “Witty and mean is easy – but fond and funny is hard.”

— Steven Moffat

30. “The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You’re soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.”

— Steven Moffat

31. “We all change, when you think about it, we’re all different people; all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”

— Steven Moffat

32. “Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.”

— Steven Moffat

33. “Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It’s just a nightmare, Reinette, don’t worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!”

— Steven Moffat

34. “I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.”

— Steven Moffat

35. “What’s the point of being a grown-up if you don’t get to be immature?”

— Steven Moffat

36. “Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”

— Steven Moffat

37. “River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this – what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It’s a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.”

— Steven Moffat

38. “Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.”

— Steven Moffat

39. “Always take a banana to a party.”

— Steven Moffat

40. “You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.”

— Steven Moffat

41. “Bow ties are cool.”

— Steven Moffat

42. “Well we’ve moved through the funfair a bit – we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.”

— Steven Moffat

43. “You don’t want to take over the universe. You wouldn’t know what to do with it beyond shout at it.”

— Steven Moffat

44. “I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the queen should be played by a man.”

— Steven Moffat

45. “Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.”

— Steven Moffat

46. “The day you lose someone isn’t the worst -at least you’ve got something to do- it’s all the days they stay dead.”

— Steven Moffat

47. “It’s a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.”

— Steven Moffat

48. “See the bowtie? I wear it and I don’t care. That’s why it’s cool.”

— Steven Moffat

49. “I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.”

— Steven Moffat

50. “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.”

— Steven Moffat