Prince Philip Quotes

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Do you still throw spears at each other?

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

We don't come here for our health.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

You look like you're ready for bed!

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Constitutionally I don't exist.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

Do people trip over you?

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

This could only happen in a technical college.

Are you running away from something?

That's more than you know about anything else then.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

The bastards murdered half my family.

You managed not to get eaten then?

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!