The Best Adrasta Quotes

Lady: Doren, I saw no mention in your paper that the shell was alive.
Doran: It can't be, my Lady. It's impossible. We detected nothing.
Lady: [indicating the Doctor] But this man did!
Doran: He's... He's mistaken.
Doctor: Well, be to fair, I did have a couple of gadgets that he probably didn't, like a teaspoon and an open mind.

Doctor: [looking down into a dark mine shaft] What's this?
Lady: We call it - The Pit.
Doctor: Ah, you have such a way with words.

Doctor: [breaking from the subject of the eggshell] Lady Adrasta, I'd like to talk to you about these things but at the moment I'm much more concerned about Romana.
Lady: Ah, yes. Madam Korela told me. Your commander.
Doctor: No, no, she's not my commander. She's my companion.
Lady: [oily] Of course. I couldn't see a man of your obvious talents in a subordinate position.
Doctor: [working it out] You couldn't see a man of my obvious talents in a subor... Oh, no. Of course n...
[smiling]
Doctor: No, you're very kind.
Lady: Yes, aren't I.

Lady: [about the creature] Our researchers divide into two categories: The ones who have got close enough to find out something about it...
Romana: Yes.
Lady: ...and the ones who are still alive.

Romana: What is that thing in the pit?
Lady: We call it - The Creature.
Romana: Ah, that's original.

Lady: [discovering Organon in the tunnel] I thought you were dead. Why haven't you died?
Organon: I'm sorry, my Lady. It was an oversight.