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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.

Prince Philip

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
PRINCE PHILIP

Country People Pleasure Rule
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
PRINCE PHILIP

Experience Government People World
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
PRINCE PHILIP

Angry Ball Cricket Dangerous Gun Hands Man
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.
PRINCE PHILIP

Aeroplane Chair Eat Legs Wings
British women can’t cook.
PRINCE PHILIP

Cook Country One Liner Sarcastic Women
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 PHILIP

Better Capable People Time
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
PRINCE PHILIP

Aviod Favorite School Subject Unnecessary Work
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

Class Country Girl Marriage People System Thinking
You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
PRINCE PHILIP

Fitness Weight Loss
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.
PRINCE PHILIP

Deliberate Disappear Ignorance Nature Neglect Wildlife
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
PRINCE PHILIP

Confess Interest Leisure Man Money Poor
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP

Moral Prostitute Wife
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

Dead Excuse Grace Horse Jump Stop
I have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
PRINCE PHILIP

Frequent Hate Media Press
So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
PRINCE PHILIP

Drug Toxic
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
PRINCE PHILIP

Earth Level Population Return
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
PRINCE PHILIP

Essential Inredient Quality Queen Tolerance
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.
PRINCE PHILIP

Carpet Country Ideas Man People
Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
PRINCE PHILIP

Engineer God Invention
It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
PRINCE PHILIP

Better Date Philosophy Reach
Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
PRINCE PHILIP

Always Ignorance People Same Young
I can’t remember names and things.
PRINCE PHILIP

Forget Name Remember
I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
PRINCE PHILIP

Age Decision Give Up Play Polo
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
PRINCE PHILIP

Business Done Excellence Motivational Reason Start
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
PRINCE PHILIP

Carpet Examination Funny Invention Man Red
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIP

Communication Discover Happen Moth Shut
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
PRINCE PHILIP

Complain Leisure Unemployment

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