Prince Philip Quotes - Page 3

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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. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.

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  Silly, Book, Ideas

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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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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  Nature, Ignorance, World

  Speech at World Wildlife Fund Dinner, York, 1969. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• 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.

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  Children, Future, Hands

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• You look like you're ready for bed!

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  Dukes, Bed, Edinburgh

  "Prince Philip's Best and Worst Public Gaffes Ahead of His Final Royal Engagement". Said in 2003 to President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, www.mirror.co.uk. August 02, 2017.

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• There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

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  Nice, Years, Ancient

  "Duke of Edinburgh Admits: 'Bits Beginning to Drop Off Ancient Frame'" by Andrew Hough, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 10, 2011.

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• Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

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  Dog, Edinburgh, Classic

  "Duke bounds into guide dog gaffe" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2002.

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• So this is feminist corner then.

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  Feminist, Classic, Corners

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• 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?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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

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  Cowboy, Looks, Classic

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

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  Business, Instinct, Natural

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

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  Leisure, Edinburgh, Complaining

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

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  Years, Population, Done

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

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  Writing, Letters, Classic

  "Schoolboy refutes Sun's Prince Philip gaffe claim" by Patrick Barrett, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2003.

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• We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

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  Museums, People, Doe

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

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  Looks, Goes On, Classic

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• What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

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  Singers, Awful, Classic

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

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  Daughter, Art, School

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• You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

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  Tape, Classic, Instruments

  "Prince Philip gaffes: 97 best and worst quotes as he celebrates his birthday". www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2018.

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• The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

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  Breakfast, Classic, Cooks

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• We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

  Prince Philip

  Gun, Rushing, Classic

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• There's a lot of your family in tonight.

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  Edinburgh, Tonight, Classic

  "'There's a Lot of Your Family in Tonight': What Prince Philip Told Asian Businessman at Reception for British Indians". www.dailymail.co.uk. October 28, 2009.

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• Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

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  Classic, Scottish, Scotsmen

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• They're not mating are they?

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  Classic, Mating

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

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  Funny, Home, Cooking

  In 'Observer' 28 Oct. 1962

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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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  Government, Self, People

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 30 Dec. 1959

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