As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIPEverybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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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You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
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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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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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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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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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Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.
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It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.
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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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You could do with losing a little bit of weight.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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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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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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