I can only assume that it is largely due to the accumulation
of toasts to my health over the years that I am still enjoying
a fairly satisfactory state of health and have reached such
an unexpectedly great age.
Prince Philip
Speech to Corporation of the City of London,
June 2001. |
If it has got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two
wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims
and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
Prince Philip
Commenting on Chinese eating habits to
World Wildlife Fund conference in 1986. |
Ghastly.
Prince Philip
Commenting on Beijing, China, during 1986
official visit there. |
If a cricketer, for example, suddenly decided to go into a
school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,
which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban
cricket bats?
Prince Philip
Amid calls to ban firearms after the massacre
of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996. |
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are
complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip
At the height of the recession in 1981. |
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
Prince Philip
To British students in China during Royal
visit there in 1986. |
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.
Prince Philip
Pointing at an old-fashioned fuse box while
on a tour of a factory near Edinburgh. |
Bloody silly fool!
Prince Philip
Referring to a Cambridge University car
park attendant who failed to recognize him, 1997. |
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
Prince Philip
To islander in the Cayman Islands, 1994. |
You managed not to get eaten, then.
Prince Philip
To student who had been trekking in Papua
New Guinea in 1998, suggesting Papuan tribes people were still
cannibals. |
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