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Prince Philip Quotes

1956: "It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on."

1962: "I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff."

1965: "Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'"

 
Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh's Life in Pictures
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Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh's Life in Pictures

1966: "British women can't cook."

1969: When speaking to Sir Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?"

1969: "I declare this thing open, whatever it is."

1976: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

1981: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

1986: "It looks like a tart's bedroom."

1986: "If it has 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."

1991: While in Thailand: "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species."

1995: To a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"

1996: "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?"

1997: Speaking about a successful marriage: "Tolerance is the one essential ingredient... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."

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