As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIPThere are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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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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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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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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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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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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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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You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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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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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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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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