6 Duke of Edinburgh Philip Quotes on Communication

Duke of Edinburgh Philip quotes on communication

5. It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer. If you get a silly answer, which can easily happen, you can return to the charge with even more telling effect. Whatever happens, don't give up and don't despair. Results may not be immediately apparent, but you may have touched a receptive chord without knowing it. Even the most unsympathetic and unenlightened politician, industrialist or bureaucrat begins to take notice when a lot of people write about the same subject.

9. You have mosquitos. I have the Press.

17. Angering local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, the Prince said to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: 'People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.'[2]

36. What do you gargle with - pebbles? (1969)

40. Bloody silly fool! (1997)

56. 'Damn fool question!'