Prince Philip's greatest quipsQueen's husband to retire from royal duties this fall
Toronto Sun
First posted: Friday, May 05, 2017 07:43 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, May 05, 2017 08:06 AM EDT
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is.”
- 1969 on a visit to Canada
"British women can’t cook”
- 1966
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
- 1986 WWF meeting
“It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”
- 1988 on the plans for Duke and Duchess of York’s house
“Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.”
- 1994 to the Queen
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
- 1995 to a Scots driving instructor
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”
- 1999
“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.”
-m 1999 to the Thais
“You managed not to get eaten, then?”
- 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
“You’re too fat to be an astronaut.”
- 2001 to 13-year-old Andrew Adams, who told Philip he wanted to go into space
“How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?”
- 2012 when meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter
“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested.”
- On Princess Anne
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