As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIPBooks are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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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.
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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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I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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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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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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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.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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