some house quotes

• "Everybody lies." First said: [#101], later this is referred to in almost every episode and also has the following corollaries:

  • "I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do." [#107]

  
  

  • "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." [#121]

  
  

  • "You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little chemical teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat." [#113]

  
  

  • "If he gets better, I'm right, if he dies, you're right." [#117]

  
  

  • "We treat it. If she[he] gets better we know that we're right." First said: [#101]

  
  

  • "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 always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it." First said: [#101

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  "IF YOU COULD REASON WITH RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, THERE WOULD BE NO RELIGIOUS PEOPLE"