It’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.
PRINCE PHILIPWe live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
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Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
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Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.
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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.
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I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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I have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
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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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I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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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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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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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.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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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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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.
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