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Prince Philip

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

Age Decision Give Up Play Polo
Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
PRINCE PHILIP

Drug Population Problem
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
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP

Moral Prostitute Wife
British women can’t cook.
PRINCE PHILIP

Cook Country One Liner Sarcastic Women
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
PRINCE PHILIP

Aviod Favorite School Subject Unnecessary Work
It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
PRINCE PHILIP

Better Date Philosophy Reach
Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
PRINCE PHILIP

Challenge Change Strength Threat Traditional
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
You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
PRINCE PHILIP

Decision Invitation Want
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
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIP

Communication Discover Happen Moth Shut
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
Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
PRINCE PHILIP

Engineer God Invention
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
PRINCE PHILIP

Amount Happen Live Museum People Virtual
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
Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
PRINCE PHILIP

Duty Family Name Society
I can’t remember names and things.
PRINCE PHILIP

Forget Name Remember
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
PRINCE PHILIP

Complain Leisure Unemployment
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
You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
PRINCE PHILIP

Fitness Weight Loss
I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
PRINCE PHILIP

Albohol Beer Care Funny
I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
PRINCE PHILIP

Notice Subject Talk
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.
PRINCE PHILIP

Age Book Certain Enough Fashion People Perception
So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
PRINCE PHILIP

Drug Toxic
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

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