Prince Philip
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.Collection: Believe
There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?Collection: Might
I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.Collection: Classic
There's a lot of your family in tonight.Collection: Edinburgh
It's a vast waste of space.Collection: Space
The French don't know how to cook breakfast.Collection: Breakfast
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.Collection: Government
It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.Collection: Song
I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.Collection: Responsibility
For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.Collection: Successful
I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.Collection: Classic
Do people trip over you?Collection: People
Are you running away from something?Collection: Running
It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.Collection: Pertinent Questions
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take placeCollection: Space
Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?Collection: Cash
We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.Collection: Health
You managed not to get eaten then?Collection: Edinburgh
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.Collection: Edinburgh
We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.Collection: Military
And what exotic part of the world do you come from?Collection: Exotic
That's more than you know about anything else then.Collection: Classic
Can you tell the difference between them?Collection: Differences
It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!Collection: Awful
In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.Collection: Equality
The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.Collection: Country
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?Collection: Car
No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.Collection: Classic
Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.Collection: Rivers
If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.Collection: Edinburgh
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.Collection: Animal
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.Collection: Country
And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.Collection: Responsibility
Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?Collection: Design
You bloody silly fool!Collection: Silly
We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.Collection: Giving Up
This could only happen in a technical college.Collection: College
It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.Collection: Moon
People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.Collection: Fire
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!Collection: Writing
We don't come here for our health.Collection: Classic
That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?Collection: Nice
You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.Collection: Long
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?Collection: Diamond Jubilee
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.Collection: Usual
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.Collection: Death
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.Collection: Horse
You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.Collection: Silly
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.Collection: Years