HOUSE QUOTES Season 1 House: "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies.

The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is i t tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they' re willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for." "Perseverance does not equal worthiness." House: "You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and h eaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you ca n tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it come s time to cross the road, I know you look both ways." House: "Lesson to be learned: treat everybody as if they have Korsakoff's, we al l lie anyway." House: "Less money is made by biochemists working on a cure for cancer than by t heir colleagues struggling valiantly to find ways to hide steroid use." House: "Figures you'd try and come up with a solution where no one gets hurt. Th e problem is, the world doesn't work that way just 'cause you want it to." Cameron: "Figures you'd stall and refuse to deal with the issue. Problem is, the world doesn't go away just because you want it to." Season 2 Foreman: "Her oxygen saturation is normal." House: "It's off by one percentage point." Foreman: "It's within range. It's normal." House: "If her DNA was off by one percentage point, she'd be a dolphin." House: "Now, would the world be a better place if people never felt guilty? Make s sex better. [Pointing to Stacy] Should have seen her in the last months of our relationship. Lot of guilt. Lot of screaming. I know this wasn't just because i t was your roof. Cuddy ... you see the world as it is, and you see the world as it could be. What you don't see is what everybody else sees: the giant, gaping c hasm in between." House: "We are who people think we are." House: "The air is keeping him from breathing air. Let's go with that for the ir ony." House: "Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause!" Cameron: "Love is an emotion certain people experience, similar to happiness. No , maybe I should give a more relatable example." Chase: "You're gonna talk to a patient?" House: "God talks to him. It'd be arrogant of me to assume that I'm better than God." Moriarty: "You think that the only truth that matters is that truth can be measu red. Good intentions don't count. What's in your heart doesn't count. Caring doe sn't count. But a man's life can be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. Just because you can't measure them, just because you don't wanna measure them, doesn't mean it's not real. And even if I'm wrong, you're still miserable.

Did you really think that your life's purpose was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No...you believe that there is no purpose, to anything, even the lives you save you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, strip it of all meaning. You're miserable for nothing...I don't kn ow why you'd wanna live." Jack: "You pretend to buck the system, pretend to be a rebel, claim to hate rule s. [We see that House is pretending to sleep throughout this.] But all you do is substitute your own rules for society's. That's a nice, simple rule-tell the bl unt, honest truth in the starkest, darkest way. And what will be, will be. What will be, should be. And everyone else is a coward. But you're wrong. Someone cow ardly should not call someone an idiot. People aren't tactful or polite just bec ause it's nice. They do it because they've got an ounce of humility. Because the y know that they will make mistakes, and they know that their actions have conse quences, and they know that those consequences are their fault. Why do you want so badly not to be human, House? [Cameron and Foreman enter and see House lookin g asleep.] Oh, he's awake"