Prince Philip quotes
Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, recently got into trouble for
telling a young boy he was too fat to be an astronaut. Here then are a
few other choice quotes from Prince Philip...
"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.''
- addressing British students during a 1986 visit to China
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the
test?''
- question posed to a Scottish driving instructor in 1995
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are
complaining they are unemployed.''
- comment made during a particularly bad recession in Britain in 1981