Quotes from Prince Philip

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

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

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

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.

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

We don't come here for our health.

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

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

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

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

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

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

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

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

It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.

In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.

It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.

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.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.