Prince Philip quotes
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“We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.”
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“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.”
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“If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.”
-- Prince PhilipSource : Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986
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“I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”
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“So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.”
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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
-- Prince PhilipSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect”
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“You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.”
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“A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.”
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“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.”
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“You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
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“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.”
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“I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!”
-- Prince PhilipSource : "Prince Philip gaffes: The Duke of Edinburgh's best jokes and witticisms over the years" by Nick Gutteridge, www.express.co.uk. July 16, 2015.
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“You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.”
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“We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”
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“It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”
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“Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.”
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“The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.”
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“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
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“Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
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“Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.”
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“People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
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“There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?”
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“Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?”
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“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”
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“Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.”
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“In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.”
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“As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.”
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“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.”
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“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”
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“If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.”
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“It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!”
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“They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.”
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“You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?”
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“I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.”
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“People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.”
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“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?”
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“All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.”
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