Prince Philip Quotes

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

British women can't cook.

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

You bloody silly fool!

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

So this is feminist corner then.

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place

Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.

We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.