Prince Philip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.”

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

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

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

“People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.”

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