Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Prince Philip - Page 2

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.

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.

Constitutionally I don't exist.

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

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

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

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

They're not mating are they?

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

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.

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

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

Do you work in a strip club?

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

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.

So this is feminist corner then.

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

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

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.

You look like you're ready for bed!

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

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

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

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

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

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.

Can you tell the difference between them?

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

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

It's a vast waste of space.

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!

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?

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?

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

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

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

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

Are you running away from something?