Best 105 quotes of Prince Philip on MyQuotes

A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

Are you running away from something?

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.

British women can't cook.

But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

Do people trip over you?

Do you still throw spears at each other?

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

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.

If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested.

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.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.