Season

Season 1

by Hugh Laurie, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein and 13 others

Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain, he uses a cane that seems to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. While his beha

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Characters

Hugh Laurie (37)Dr. Gregory House (37)David Shore (15)Lawrence Kaplow (7)Thomas L. Moran (6)Matt Witten (4)David Foster (4)Sara B. Cooper (3)Peter Blake (3)John Mankiewicz (3)

“Dr. Allison Cameron: Men should grow up. Dr. Gregory House: Yeah, and dogs should stop licking themselves. It's not gonna happen.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

Tagged: Men, Dogs, habits, Sassy, sarcastic

“Perseverance does not equal worthiness.”

— Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

Tagged: perseverance, Worthiness, Not The Same

“You can't order a thirty-two hundred dollar DNA test to win a bet!”

— Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Lisa Edelstein, imdb.com

Tagged: Money, DNA, win a bet, Bets

“Dr. Eric Foreman: He probably just moved. Nobody stays perfectly still for their entire MRI. Dr. Gregory House: Yeah, probably got restless and shifted one hemisphere of his brain to a more comfortable position.”

— Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

Tagged: MRI, Restless, sarcastic, Brain, comfortable

“I need thirty-six Vicodin and change for a dollar.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

Tagged: Drugs, Vicodin, Change, dollar

“Oxygen is so important during those prepubescent years, don't you think?”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

Tagged: Oxygen, sarcastic, Sassy, Important, Prepubescent

“I mean, I’m not doing squats or anything. I’m trying to eat less doughnuts.”

— Donick Cary, Lesley Wake Webster, Nick Miller, Jake Johnson, imdb.com

Tagged: Exercise, healthy, eating

“I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.”

— Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Patients, Dying, Medicine, Taking Risks

“You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat.”

— Matt Witten, Peter Blake, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: humor, Sarcasm, Honesty, lying, Dishonesty

“There's no 'I' in team. There's a 'me' though, if you jumble it up.”

— David Foster, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Teamwork, Collaboration, Cooperation, humor, Sarcasm

“We formulate our questions based on the answers we want to hear.”

— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Questions, Answers

“If you can fake sincerity, you can fake pretty much anything.”

— John Mankiewicz, Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Sincerity, fake

“You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, heaven and hell, but when it comes to the world, don't be an idiot, because you can tell me that you put your faith in God to get through the day but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.”

— Sara B. Cooper, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Faith, Religion, Belief, After-Life, Self-Direction

“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.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Dying, Death, dignity

“The problem is, the world doesn't work that way just because you want it to.”

— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Life, Truth

“Truth begins in lies.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Lies

“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.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Hate, emotions, humor

“Humanity is overrated.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Mankind, The Human Condition

“Reality is almost always wrong.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Perception

“It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”

— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Lies, Honesty, Dishonesty, The Human Condition