I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
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Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
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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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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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I have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
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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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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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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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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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British women can’t cook.
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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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