What's your favourite Prince Philip quote?

Question

I think he's one of the funniest people out there, he should have his own show.

My favourite is "They have eating dogs for the anorexic now" - said to a blind lady with a guide dog.

Answer 1

My fav:- "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)

Others:-

When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

After accepting a gift from a Kenyan native he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"

"British women can't cook." (1966)

To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"

Angered 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 11 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."

On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."

He asked an Indigenous Australian, "Still throwing spears?" (2002)

Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." (1993)

To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional Muslim robes, "You look like you're ready for bed!"

[To Lord Taylor of Warwick, who is black]: And what exotic part of the world do you come from? [Lord Taylor]: I'm from Birmingham.

Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".

During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly".

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)

At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

"That's not right. The number is less." Having observed a plaque claiming 2000 were murdered by the British in the Amritsar Massacre.

Answer 2

Who is Prince Phillip @ what is he supposed to be famous for?