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.
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 have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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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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I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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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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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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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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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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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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British women can’t cook.
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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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
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