Dr. Richard Webber'sQuotes, Quips, and Wisdom
Those busy surgeons always manage to have astute observations about love, life, death, and relationships (natch). Sometimes profound, sometimes funny, but always worth remembering--so let's collect them here! (Click EasyEdit)



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RICHARD: "What’s the news?"
MARK: "Shepherd and Grey are on the rocks, Burke and Yang got engaged... You need highlights. In your hair, that’s why it looks so odd."
RICHARD: [stares blankly]
MARK: "I’m gonna go save lives!"


MIRANDA: "You didn't think of maybe telling me this morning that you were planning to step down instead of sending me on this wild goose chase?"
RICHARD: "Dr. Bailey. You need those clowns to sign off on your proposal because one of them may be Chief of Surgery in a month. It's hard to imagine, for me more than anyone, but since you're not ready for the job, one of them has got to do it for the next few years."
MIRANDA: "Me?!"
RICHARD: "It's you that's going to be Chief eventually. That's who you are. But you're gonna have to get a new chair because you're too short. You have short legs. But someday you are going to be Chief of Surgery. I wasn't sending you on a wild goose chase. I was trying to get you in a habit of doing things without me."


RICHARD: "Why are you researching neurosurgeons when you and I both know that Derek's better than anybody?"
PRESTON: "I don't want Shepherd."
RICHARD: "You blame this on him? Up until now, I have not yelled. I have not yelled because you are a guy in trouble and I was supporting you. But now I am yelling!"
PRESTON: "Chief-"
RICHARD: "I am yelling very loudly! I wanna retire, Burke! I want my wife back and I passed the torch to you! I passed the torch to you and you blew it out!"
PRESTON: "I know I let you down."
RICHARD: "Burke, I'm tired. I'm tired of you men acting like boys. You let me down and if you don't let Derek fix that hand, you're letting yourself down."


DEREK: "We think you're depressed."
RICHARD: "Both of you?"
DEREK & ADDISON: "Yes."
RICHARD: "Well, for the two of you to agree on something I must be damn near suicidal."


RICHARD: "Oh! So you're, um, that's wonderful! Man love! It's beautiful. Beautiful... My cousin's gay! So... I'm hip and Brokeback Mountain and... all of that."


DEREK: "Where is she?"
RICHARD: "You had to be the cowboy..."
DEREK: "Where is she?!"
ADDISON: "Derek! Thank God, you're alive."
ADELE: "That is not the she he was asking for."


"You're not here to make friends, Addison. You're here to make better surgeons. Being a teacher can be a lonely business."


MIRANDA: "You are a surgical junkie. Go home!"
RICHARD: "Adele is already mad. I'm in trouble no matter what ... and there's a wipple happening in OR2."
MIRANDA: "Go home, right now!"
RICHARD: "You know this kind of treatment is the reason they call you the Nazi!"
MIRANDA: "Happy Thanksgiving."


RICHARD: "One of you compromised a patient's life. One of you stole an organ. One of you jeopardized the integrity of this hospital and of UNOS. Now you tell me and you tell me right now. [silence] Alright, fine. No surgeries."
CRISTINA: "Sir?"
RICHARD: "No one scrubs in, no one watches from the gallery, no one so much as goes near the O.R. Until someone confesses, you will share a single patient, Camille Travis. Whatever she wants, the five of you will provide it. Get the hell out of my sight."


"You don't know how much I wish this was bourbon."


"I've been sitting home for a week watching Oprah give away things on T.V. Oprah, Derek!"


RICHARD: "You called my wife?"
DEREK: "You called mine!"


"You are all a bunch of arrogant surgeons."