Prince Philip (the Queen's husband) Quotes

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"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
To a group of British students in China in 1986.

"Do you still throw spears at each other?"
To indigenous leader William Brin during a visit to the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland, 2002.

"You look like you're ready for bed!"
To the President of Nigeria, who was wearing traditional robes.

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
To a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

"You managed not to get eaten then?"
To a British student trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998.

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
To an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands.

"You are a woman, aren't you?"
To a Kenyan woman in 1984 after she gave him a present

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian."
Prince's verdict on a fuse box he noticed during a tour of a Scottish factory in 1999.

Today on BBC when asked if he was "green" he said that he was all for the environment but wasn't a bunny hugger.

In response to the Queen asking a veteran how much sight he had left, Philip said, "Judging by the tie he's wearing, none."