Duke of Edinburgh Philip Quotes on Culture
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?'[1]
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When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, 'If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed'.[1]
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After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, 'You are a woman, aren't you?'[1]
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'If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.' (1986)[1]
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In 1966 he remarked that 'British women can't cook.'[1]
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To a British student in Papua New Guinea: 'You managed not to get eaten then?'[1]
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In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]
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Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, 'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (1993)[1]
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'Aren't most of you descended from pirates?' (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[1]
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In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 'This place is saturated with the blood of about two thousand Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who were martyred in a non-violent struggle.', Prince Philip observed, 'That's a bit exaggerated, it must include the wounded'. When asked how he had come to this conclusion Philip said 'I was told about the killings by General Dyer's son. I'd met him while I was in the Navy.' [9]
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During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London, he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist organization the Tamil Tigers.[1]
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The only active sport I will follow is polo - and most of the work is done by the pony. (1965)
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French cooking's all very well, but they can't do a decent English breakfast. (2002)
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Edinburgh: And what exotic part of the world do you come from? Lord Taylor: I'm from Birmingham. (1999)
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'Brazilians live there'
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'Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.'