Prince Philip Quotes - Page 3

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

You look like you're ready for bed!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They're not mating are they?

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

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

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

So this is feminist corner then.

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

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

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?

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!