STACE Dragon.
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[Edited by STACE on 06-07-2009 12:24 PM]Utter racist/sexist buffoon? Potential stand up comedian? Or just unintentional lolz due to his own stupidity?
Either way, Prince Philips quotes really are quite legendary.
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"Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps."
Prince Philip At Washington Embassy reception for Commonwealth members.
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
Prince Philip
"When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car of a new wife."
Prince Philip
March 1988.
"Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years."
Prince Philip
Address to General Dental Council, quoted in Time November 21, 1960.
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
Prince Philip
To Scottish driving instructor, 1995.
"Tolerance is the one essential ingredient … You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."
Prince Philip
His recipe for a successful marriage, during celebrations for their golden wedding anniversary, November 1997.
"If it has got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Prince Philip
Commenting on Chinese eating habits to World Wildlife Fund conference in 1986.
"If a cricketer, for example, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
Prince Philip
Amid calls to ban firearms after the massacre of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996.
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
Prince Philip
At the height of the recession in 1981.
"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
Prince Philip
To British students in China during Royal visit there in 1986.
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
Prince Philip
To islander in the Cayman Islands, 1994.
"You managed not to get eaten, then."
Prince Philip
To student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998, suggesting Papuan tribes people were still cannibals.
"Aren't there any male supervisors? This is a nanny city."
Prince Philip
In San Francisco on meeting five city officials - all of whom were female.
"You were playing your instruments weren't you? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?"
Prince Philip
Congratulating a school band on their performance in Australia.
"You are a woman, aren't you?"
Prince Philip
In Kenya in 1984, after accepting a gift from an indigenous woman.
"The bastards murdered half my family."
Prince Philip
In room full of press agents, commenting on Russians in 1967, having been asked whether he would consider a visit there.
"What do you gargle with - pebbles?"
Prince Philip
To singer Tom Jones, after 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
"All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury."
Prince Philip
May 1963.
"We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people."
Prince Philip
February 1964.
"It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?'. You just got on with it."
Prince Philip
Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day.
"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people."
Prince Philip
To Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator.
"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it."
Prince Philip
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