Prince Philip Quotes

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

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.

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

Can you tell the difference between them?

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

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

You managed not to get eaten then?

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

They're not mating are they?

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

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

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

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

So this is feminist corner then.

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

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

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

No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.

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 is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Are you running away from something?

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

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

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

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!

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

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

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

Do people trip over you?

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

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