Top 35 Prince William Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.”

— Prince William

2. “My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.”

— Prince William

3. “I think it’s very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you’re responsible for your actions, so you don’t blame other people.”

— Prince William

4. “People say it’s not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.”

— Prince William

5. “I’m always open for people saying I’m wrong because most of the time I am.”

— Prince William

6. “I’m still trying to decide. It’s a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I’d love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.”

— Prince William

7. “I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.”

— Prince William

8. “The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.”

— Prince William

9. “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”

— Prince William

10. “I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William – for now.”

— Prince William

11. “No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes, what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.”

— Prince William

12. “That which holds our attention determines our action.”

— Prince William

13. “When the Queen says ‘well done,’ it means so much.”

— Prince William

14. “I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever – it’s fun – but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.”

— Prince William

15. “I don’t deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone’s company, then that’s all that counts. I have many different friends who aren’t from the same background as me and we get on really wellit’s brilliant.”

— Prince William

16. “It’s my mother’s engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she’s not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all – this was my way of keeping her close to it all.”

— Prince William

17. “Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!”

— Prince William

18. “I just want to go to university and have fun – I want to be an ordinary student. I’m only going to university. It’s not like I’m getting married – though that’s what it feels like sometimes.”

— Prince William

19. “Only the mad girls chase me, I think.”

— Prince William

20. “I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.”

— Prince William

21. “My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: ‘This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.’”

— Prince William

22. “It’s like a rugby team. If you’re picking for the World Cup final, you’re picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.”

— Prince William

23. “I’m reasonably headstrong about what I believe in, and what I go for, and I’ve got fantastic people around me who give me great support and advice.”

— Prince William

24. “I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.”

— Prince William

25. “I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!”

— Prince William

26. “He’s a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he’s a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.”

— Prince William

27. “I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.”

— Prince William

28. “There’s been a lot of speculation about every single girl I’m with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it’s a complete pain for the girls.”

— Prince William

29. “My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.”

— Prince William

30. “I’m just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.”

— Prince William

31. “I’m probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.”

— Prince William

32. “As any new parent knows, you’re only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.”

— Prince William

33. “We could not be happier.”

— Prince William

34. “I’ve had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I’ve had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.”

— Prince William

35. “There are times where you can’t do it yourself and the system takes over, or it’s appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.”

— Prince William

36. “We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.”

— Prince William

37. “Being a small boy it’s very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.”

— Prince William

38. “You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong – it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.”

— Prince William

39. “When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.”

— Prince William