People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
PRINCE PHILIPDontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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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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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
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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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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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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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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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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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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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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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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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