Prince Philip

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.

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.

I can't remember names and things.

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

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.

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

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.

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.

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.

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