Dr Gregory House – the genius doctor who has absolutely no regard for conventions and whose patients find death more pleasant than his company. You could call him the ‘mad scientist’ but he has little regard for recognition too. Witty, rude to the point that his patients dread life itself, and a sociopath who hates humans albeit not humanity – Dr House is your modern-day anti-hero. 

His unrelenting wit makes the show what it is. Much of the show’s humour is derived from his colleagues and interns struggling to put up with his whims and eccentricities. Truth is that although there is no one as crude as him, there’s no one as honest and efficient as him. The man gets the job done, whatever his ways may be. Here are 12 quotes by him that prove life is unfair and you have to keep up to survive. Welcome to the real world, Dr House would say.

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