Classic Quotes - Page 29

• Are you running away from something?

  Prince Philip

  Running, Running Away

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• Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Notorious, Endangered Species

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

  Prince Philip

  Cat, Men, Bird

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• During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

  Prince Philip

  Usual, Window, Blitz

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• Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Wonder, Deaf

  "Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark". Said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 1999.

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• You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

  Prince Philip

  Long, Dukes, Edinburgh

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• You managed not to get eaten then?

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Dukes, Embarrassing

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Tonight, Our Family

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

  Prince Philip

  Cowboy, Looks, Indian

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• People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

  Prince Philip

  Fire, Water, People

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• We don't come here for our health.

  Prince Philip

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• We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

  Prince Philip

  Giving Up, Years, Next Year

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• I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

  Prince Philip

  Law

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

  Prince Philip

  Silly, Littles, Trust Me

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• A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

  Prince Philip

  Years, People, Mind

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• It's a vast waste of space.

  Prince Philip

  Space, Waste, Waste Of Space

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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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• 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.

  Prince Philip

  Class, Appreciate, Design

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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, Counsellors

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• It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

  Prince Philip

  Song, Singing, Difficult

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• British women can't cook.

  Prince Philip

  Funny, British, Cooks

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1966, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

  Prince Philip

  Inspiration, Pirate, Edinburgh

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1994 to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

  Prince Philip

  Diamond Jubilee, Long, Tests

  "Prince Philip: His public life in gaffes", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2017.

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• [after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

  Prince Philip

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Prince Philip

  Daughter, Art, School

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