Top 100 Prince Philip Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.”

— Prince Philip

52. “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”

— Prince Philip

53. “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.”

— Prince Philip

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

— Prince Philip

55. “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”

— Prince Philip

56. “They’re a damn nuisance – I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.”

— Prince Philip

57. “If a cricketer, for instance, 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

58. “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

— Prince Philip

59. “As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.”

— Prince Philip

60. “It makes you all look like Dracula’s daughters!”

— Prince Philip

61. “I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.”

— Prince Philip

62. “The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place.”

— Prince Philip

63. “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

— Prince Philip

64. “Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.”

— Prince Philip

65. “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...”

— Prince Philip

66. “We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.”

— Prince Philip

67. “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

— Prince Philip

68. “This could only happen in a technical college.”

— Prince Philip

69. “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?”

— Prince Philip

70. “Do people trip over you?”

— Prince Philip

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

— Prince Philip

72. “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!”

— Prince Philip

73. “I don’t know how they’re going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.”

— Prince Philip

74. “Do you still throw spears at each filmother?”

— Prince Philip

75. “In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.”

— Prince Philip

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

— Prince Philip

77. “I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.”

— Prince Philip

78. “A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.”

— Prince Philip

79. “We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.”

— Prince Philip

80. “I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.”

— Prince Philip

81. “So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.”

— Prince Philip

82. “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

— Prince Philip

83. “In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.”

— Prince Philip

84. “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”

— Prince Philip

85. “It doesn’t look like much work goes on at this university.”

— Prince Philip

86. “I suppose I’d get in trouble if I were to melt them down.”

— Prince Philip

87. “We don’t come here for our health.”

— Prince Philip

88. “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”

— Prince Philip

89. “Oh! You’re the people ruining the rivers.”

— Prince Philip

90. “I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what – if any – responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a “sacred” entity.”

— Prince Philip

91. “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.”

— Prince Philip

92. “There’s a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?”

— Prince Philip

93. “It seems to me that it’s the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don’t think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.”

— Prince Philip

94. “It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.”

— Prince Philip

95. “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”

— Prince Philip

96. “Ah, you’re the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?”

— Prince Philip

97. “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”

— Prince Philip

98. “For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.”

— Prince Philip

99. “That’s more than you know about anything else then.”

— Prince Philip

100. “No, I’d probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”

— Prince Philip