I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
PRINCE PHILIPAs so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
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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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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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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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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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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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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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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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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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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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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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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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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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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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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
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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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