Explore Quotes by Prince Philip

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

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

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

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

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

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

The bastards murdered half my family.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

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

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

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.

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.

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

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

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place