As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIPDontopedalogy 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 have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
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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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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
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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 have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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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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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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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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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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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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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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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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British women can’t cook.
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Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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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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It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
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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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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