Prince Philip has died aged 99. Here are 67 of his most memorable quotes

35. On Tom Jones, 1969: “It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”

36. Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.”

37. To a car park attendant who didn’t recognise him in 1997, he snapped: “You bloody silly fool!”

38. To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”

39. To a fashion writer in 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?”

40. To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

41. To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

42. To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”

43. To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”

44. To astronaut hopeful Andrew Adams, 13, in 1998: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”

45. To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”

46. To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”

47. To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”

48. “Who do you sponge off?” he asked women at a community centre in Barking and Dagenham in 2015.

49. To a newspaper editor: “Where are you from?” “The Sun, sir.” Philip: “Oh, no . . . one can’t tell from the outside.”

50. To Elton John on his gold Aston Martin in 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car, is it?”

51. To expats in Abu Dhabi last year: “Are you running away from something?”

52. To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?”

53. To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”

54. To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009. winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”

55. To parents at a previously struggling Sheffield school, 2003: “Were you here in the bad old days? … That’s why you can’t read and write then!”

56. To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

57. His description of Beijing, during a visit there in 1986: “Ghastly.”

58. To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”

59. To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”

60. To Susan Edwards and her guide dog in 2002: “They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.”

61. To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: “If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”

62. To the Scottish WI in 1961: “British women can’t cook.”

63. To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”

64. Turning down food, 2000: “No, I’d probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”

65. “I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.” 1987

66. “I have never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.” To a group of industrialists in 1961.

67. Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.”

Our thoughts go to the Royal family, the Duke of Edinburgh’s friends and everyone who knew him. RIP Prince Philip.

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