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-- Dr. House, MD



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HOUSE MD QUOTES: HOUSE ON LIFE, FRIENDSHIPS, and LOVE
  • "There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is --- in fact --- a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate."
  • “Bros before hos, man.”
  • “Everybody lies.” - practically every episode but the first was in Pilot
  • "I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask."
  • "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in team. There's a 'me,' if you jumble it up." - DNR
  • "Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them." - It's A Wonderful Lie
  • "No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic." - House vs. God
  • "People don´t change."
  • "Well, like the philosopher Jagger once said, 'You can’t always get what you want.'" - Pilot
  • "I only became a doctor because of the movie Patch Adams" - Ugly





HOUSE MD QUOTES: HOUSE ON MEDICINE and BEING A DOCTOR
  • House: I teach you to lie, cheat, and steal, and as soon as my back's turned you wait in line?- Failure to Communicate
  • “Treating illnesses is why we became doctors. Treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable.” - Pilot
  • "To do what I always do in these situations. Treat my patient behind his back and make him better." - Ugly
  • "Don't worry. Many women learn to live with this parasite. My own mother, for example. Forty-five years and she only complains about it now from time to time." - Maternity
  • "Seizures are fun to watch, boring to diagnose." - Forever
  • Cuddy: "Dr. House! Need you here."
Cuddy
House: "No thanks. Lotta sick people. I might catch something."
    • Cameron: "Could pain medication cause an orgasm?"
    House: "I wish."
    • Foreman: "You stash your drugs in a Lupus text book."
    House: "It's never Lupus." - Finding Judas
    • "You're an idiot."
    • "Yes, the symptom that I saw on the bus was a rare interferon allergy which flares up two days before you take it." - Wilson's Heart
    • Cameron: "You can't diagnose that without a biopsy."
    House: "Yes, we can, we treat it. If she gets better we know that we're right."
    Cameron: "And if we're wrong?"
    House: "We learn something else." - Pilot
    • "You're orange, you moron!" - Pilot
    • "Pretty much all the drugs I prescribe are addictive and dangerous."




    HOUSE MD QUOTES: ON DEATH and HIS PATIENTS
    • "Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own butt. It's always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it." - Pilot
    • "I ask you, is almost dying any reason for not being fun?" - Forever
    • “Would've been more impressive if he'd predicted he wasn't gonna die. Course that takes longer.” - You Don't Want To Know
    • "That was awesome. I gotta start pretending to care."
    • Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg." I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this wholCuddypital, soCuddyrtunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a board certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only docnephrologytly employed at this hospital who is forced to be here against his will. That is true, isn't it? But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of motrin. Speaking of which, if you'motrinticularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine! You can't haveVicodinnd no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem... but who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me? - Paternity
    • "The great thing about telling somebody they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for." - Three Stories
    • "Half the people I save don't deserve a second chance."
    • Nun: "Sister Augustine believes in things that aren't real."
    House: "I thought that was a job requirement for you people." - Damned If You Do
    • "Almost dying changes nothing .Dying changes everything"-Dying Changes Everything







    HOUSE BY HOUSE
    • "I don't care much for apologies."
    • "Someone's gonna be miserable sometSomeone'spt it. That's how I stay so happy." - Mirror, Mirror
    • "My friends call me 'the cane.' Even before I messed up my leg." - Whatever it Takes
    • "I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits." - Guardian Angels
    • Are you comparing me to God? I mean, it's great, but so you know, I've never made a tree." - Role Model
    • "Why don't you want to work for me? I'm nice, fun at parties." - Forever
    • "No, let them watch. I do my best work on the big stage." - All In
    House: "They recharge? I just keep buying new phones."

    • "You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quite thinking."








    HOUSE MD QUOTES: QUOTES ABOUT HOUSE
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    • "That ignorant son of a b*tch is the best doctor we have!" -tchDr. Lisa Cuddy - Pilot
    • "PenisCuddys are murder."- House
    • House: "I could run home."
    Cuddy: (looking at his leg) "No,Cuddycouldn't."
    House: "Nice."
    • Thirteen: "You are the champion of not dealing with your problems."
    House: "My grandson gave me a mug that says that."
    • Wilson: "House, you're right! Why not? Why not date you?? It’s brilliant; we’ve known each other for years, wveve put up with all kinds of crapverom each other, and we keep coming back. We’re a couple!"
      House: "Are you still speaking metaphorically?"

    • House: "You guys are thinking like doctors when you should be thinking like plummers. Come on, I wanna see splummersbuttcrack."






    HOUSE MD QUOTES: MISCELLANEOUS
    • "Idiots are fun, no wonder every village wants one." - Forever
    • "First, 'Hector does go rug' is a lame anagram. Want a better one for Gregory House? 'Huge ego, sorry.'" - House Training
    • Wilson: "If it isn't doctor Ironside."
    House: "IIronside't doctor I had no friends when I was growing up so I sat home and watched TV by myself and I can now make constant pop culture references that no one understands but me."
    Wilson: "That's my name, don't wear it out." - Needle in a Haystack
    • Cuddy: "Oh, why do you haveCuddyake everything so dramatic?"
    House: "Because I'm a very high-strung little lapdog *yips*
    • Cameron: "What's with the jacket?
    House: "It keeps me warm and cool. How does it know?" - Daddy's Boy
    • Clinic Patient: "I wasn't trying to off myself."
    House: "No, you were trying to kill the wall." - 97 Seconds
    • Cuddy: "Then dip into your Cuddyt stash."
    House: "Tritter took it."
    Cuddy: "Tritterve on to youCuddyret-secret stash."
    House: "I ran out."
    Cuddy: "Then move on to youCuddyret-secret-secret stash!" - Finding Judas
      • Foreman: "You might wanna wait until he actually tell us his theory before you start kissing his theory's a*s."
      Chase: "I wasn't kissing his a*s."
      Foreman: "It just looked that way from our angle. You on your knees, House bending over." - Finding Judas
      • House: I assume 'minimal at best' is your stiff upper lip British way of saying "no chance in hell."
      Chase: I'm Australian.
      House: You put the Queen on your money; you're British. - Poison
      • Cuddy: What are you doing bCuddyere? A patient?
      House: No, a hooker. Came to my office instead of my home. - Paternity