Prince Philip quotes

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

#Health #Thinking #Way

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.
-- Prince Philip

#Usual #Classic #Window

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

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

#Law #Classic

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

#People #Breeding #Rainforest

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Marriage

Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect
-- Prince Philip

#Ignorance #Wildlife #World

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

#Silly #Littles #Classic

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

#Gun #Hands #Bats

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

#Wish #Levels #Earth

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.
-- Prince Philip

#Horse #Excuse #Riders

A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.
-- Prince Philip

#Years #People #Mind

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

#Singers #Awful #Classic

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
-- Prince Philip

#Littles #Weight #Classic

So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.
-- Prince Philip

#Drug #Looks #Classic

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!
-- Prince Philip

#Beer #Care #Classic

Do you work in a strip club?
-- Prince Philip

#Clubs #Classic

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

#Long #Classic #Pot

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

#Gun #Rushing #Classic

You ARE a woman, aren't you?
-- Prince Philip

#Classic

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.
-- Prince Philip

#Song #Singing #Classic

British women can't cook.
-- Prince Philip

#Classic #British #Cooks

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

#Change #Challenges #Doe

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

#Country #Two #Water

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

#Long #Tests #Classic

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

#Cannibalism #Problem #Realistic

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

#Feet #Years #Mouths

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

#Girl #Thinking #Class

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

#Might #Classic

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

#Cash #Classic

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
-- Prince Philip

#Pirate #Classic

They're not mating are they?
-- Prince Philip

#Classic #Mating

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

#Horse #Would Be #Dignity

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

#Thinking #Equality #Planets

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
-- Prince Philip

#Communication #Mouths

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.
-- Prince Philip

#Class #Appreciate #Design

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
-- Prince Philip

#Children #Future #Hands

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.
-- Prince Philip

#Successful #Men #Humanity

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
-- Prince Philip

#Men #Way #Leisure

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.
-- Prince Philip

#Feet #Classic #Flattering

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.
-- Prince Philip

#Disease #Might #Classic

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.
-- Prince Philip

#Mosquitoes #Classic

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
-- Prince Philip

#Tourism #Classic #Congestion

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!
-- Prince Philip

#Daughter #Looks #Classic

They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.
-- Prince Philip

#Dog #Classic #Eating

So this is feminist corner then.
-- Prince Philip

#Feminist #Classic

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?
-- Prince Philip

#Classic #Mink

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

#Classic #Trouble

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

#Fire #Water #People

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?
-- Prince Philip

#School #People #Bats

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

#Business #Natural #Instinct