 | ' If you stay much longer you'll get slitty-
eyed.' (while speaking to a British student
during a visit to China in 1986) |
| 'If it's got four legs and it's not a chair, if it's got two wings and
it's not an aeroplane, if it swims and it's not a submarine , what is it?
Answer, a Cantonese dinner - they'll eat anything that
moves.' (on his return from China in 1986) |
| 'How do the natives keep off the booze long enough to pass their
tests?' (while talking to a driving instructor on a
visit to Oban , Scotland ) |
| 'I don't know how these students are going to integrate in places like
Glasgow and Sheffield. I have to commiserate with
them.' (after visiting a university in Brunei and
talking to students who wanted to study in Britain) |
| 'If a cricketer , for instance, suddenly decided to go into school and
batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat which he could do very
easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket
bats?' (defending the use of hand guns during a
BBC Radio 5 interview following the Dunblane tragedy) |
| 'I was born in Greece but I am not a Greek.' (while
talking to a small boy in Sydney, Australia in 1963) |
| 'I think the number of those killed has been
exaggerated' (during a visit to Amritsar, India
in 1997 referring to the massacre of 379 unarmed protesters by British
troops in 1919) |
| 'A blind man walked into a pub and swung his guide dog around his head by
the tail. He told the barman 'I'm just having a look
around'.' (telling a joke to a blind girl while
presenting awards in Edinburgh in 1984) |
| 'We may have to move to smaller premises, who knows? We had a small yacht
which we've had to sell and I shall probably have to give up polo
fairly soon.' (explaining in 1969 that the amount
given to the Royal Family by the government was not enough to meet their
expenses) |
| 'If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't
interested.' (speaking about his daughter,
Princess Anne) |
| 'I hope he breaks his bloody neck.' (referring
to a photographer who fell from a pole while trying to get a better view} |
| 'We don't come here for our health, you know.' (while
on a Royal visit to Canada in 1969) |
| 'You managed not to get eaten then?' (while
speaking to a Duke of Edinburgh Award participant in 1998 who had trekked
across Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Trail, hinting that cannibalism was still
practised in Papua New Guinea) |
| 'Get that bloody man out of the way. Hey you, didn't you hear what I said?
You're blocking my bloody view.' (referring to
reporter David Leith who was standing in front of him at a Moroccan beauty
spot) |
| 'I suppose you are the head knit.' (speaking
to the Managing Director of a Manchester knitting company) |
| 'I don't think doing it for money makes it any more moral. I don't think a
prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same
thing.' (a speech in London in 1988 comparing
participation in blood sports to selling slaughtered meat) |
