The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
PRINCE PHILIPIt’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
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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 must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
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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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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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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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I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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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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I can’t remember names and things.
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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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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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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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