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 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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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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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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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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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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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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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.
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If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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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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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 don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
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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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You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
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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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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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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Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
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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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It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
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I can’t remember names and things.
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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’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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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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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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