Mark Gatiss > Quotes

“I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.”
― Mark Gatiss

“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”
― Mark Gatiss

“One man's fish is another man's poisson.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

“Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

“Doctor: 'I am not a hero."
Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end.”
― Mark Gatiss

“History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.”
― Mark Gatiss

“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

“Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt.”
― Mark Gatiss

“If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.”
― Mark Gatiss, Black Butterfly

“All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?”
― Mark Gatiss, Black Butterfly

“Do you believe in Evil, Mr Box?" said my companion, grinding his jaw and looking at the couple with unfeigned contempt.

"Only on Wednesdays.”
― Mark Gatiss

“I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!'
'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those!”
― Mark Gatiss, The Devil in Amber

“He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Devil in Amber

“Me having the right to get married doesn’t take anything away from anyone else. Rights aren’t like cake: me having some doesn’t mean you get less.”
― Mark Gatiss, Queers: Eight Monologues

“A better time. A simpler time,' said the Doctor. 'That's what we all yearn for. The pain of wanting to belong somewhere. To go home.”
― Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who: Nightshade

“You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.”
― Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who: Nightshade

“I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

“I know that what's done … is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.”
― Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who: Nightshade

“I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.'
Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace.”
― Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who: Nightshade

“Taking your own life. Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it’s gone it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everyone else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it!”
― Mark Gatiss, Sherlock: The Blind Banker #3

“Intuitions are not to be ignored, John. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.”
― Mark Gatiss

“Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he?”
― Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who: Nightshade

“Travel, though it broadens the mind, narrows the life expectancy.”
― Mark Gatiss, Black Butterfly