PRINCE PHILIP

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

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

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

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed

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. He may have occasional fits of conscience and moral rectitude but otherwise his actions are governed by self-interest. It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.

There is much concern these days about the taking of wild animals for sport, but against that must be placed the protection given to wild habitats and many other wild species in the process of keeping game … as with everything in nature, it is all a question of balance and this balance can only be achieved by knowledge and understanding …

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

I can't remember names and things.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.