Rebecca Adler: I just want to die with a little dignity. Dr. Gregory House: There's no such thing! 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 ass... it's…
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David Shore
David Shore (born July 3, 1959) is a Canadian writer, and former lawyer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He went on to create the critically acclaimed series House and more recently, Battle Creek, Sneaky Pete and The Good Doctor. 2Biography 3Early life Shore was born in London, Ontario, to Jewish parents. His younger twin brothers, Ephraim and Raphael, are Aish HaTorah rabbis. David is the only member of his family involved in television, although his younger brother Raphael Shore made three political documentaries about the Middle East conflict. 3Education Shore attended the University of Western Ontario for his undergraduate studies after graduating from A.B. Lucas Secondary School with distinction. He subsequently attended the University of Toronto for his law degree in 1982. Following his education he initially worked as a municipal and corporate lawyer in his native Canada before he moved to Los Angeles to break into television. He sees this as a lateral move, as he did not consider being an attorney an uncreative occupatio
I need thirty-six Vicodin and change for a dollar.
Oxygen is so important during those prepubescent years, don't you think?
Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're ninety, sometimes before we're even boring, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it.
Truth begins in lies.
Humanity is overrated.
Dr. Eric Foreman: I think your argument is specious. Dr. Gregory House: I think your tie is ugly.
Dr. James Wilson: That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality. Dr. Gregory House: Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain.
Dr. Allison Cameron: Men should grow up. Dr. Gregory House: Yeah, and dogs should stop licking themselves. It's not gonna happen.
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.
Reality is almost always wrong.
You know what's worse than useless? Useless and oblivious.
Just because you don't know what the right answer is, maybe there's even no way you could know what the right answer is doesn't make your answer right or even okay. It's much simpler than that. It's just plain wrong.
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.
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
Either God doesn't exist or he's unimaginably cruel.
Patient: Times changes everything. House: That's what people say. It's not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.
We'd be 'better people,' spending a lot more on malpractice insurance.
The rationalization is exactly the same. Words like 'temperament' and 'Oh, no! Ohh! How are the patients going to react?.' Aren't we judged by how we treat people? I don't mean as doctors. I mean as people. Especially those who... who don't have the same advantages that we have.