Top Gregory House’s Quotes

Dr. House is a medical drama show that ran from 2004 to 2012, during which it delivered eight seasons with 176 episodes. It is based on the series of diagnoses made by Dr. Gregory House, an intelligent, cynical, medically gifted, and irreparably damaged doctor.

1. “People don’t get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There’s nothing any of us can do about it.”
2. “It is in the nature of medicine, that you are gonna screw up. You are gonna kill someone. If you can’t handle that reality, pick another profession or finish medical school and teach.”
3. “Everything is conditional. We just don’t know what the conditions are.”
4. “You talk to God, you’re religious; God talks to you, you’re psychotic.”
5. “Love and happiness are nothing but distractions.”
6. “It’s normal to be screwed up, but it’s really screwed up to romanticize it.”
7. “You took a chance, you did something great. You were wrong, but it was still great. You should feel great that it was great. You should feel like crap that it was wrong.”
8. “I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.”
9. “There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.”
10. “You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don’t just run out of answers… you run out hope.”
11. “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”
12. “A unicorn isn’t a unicorn, it’s a donkey with a plunger stuck to its face.”
13. “Even a drunk with a flair for the dramatic can tell himself he’s an angel.”
14. “Patients always want proof, we’re not making cars here, we don’t give guarantees.”
15. “Dying people lie too. Wish they’d worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite.”

Dr. House is a highly clever show that will keep you glued to your screen. Check it out on Netflix.