Prince Philip

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

“If a cricketer, for instance, 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...”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 be...”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”