1 |
"No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody." |
When offered food at Rick Stein's seafood deli in 2000. |
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2 |
"Do people trip over you?" |
On meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing home resident, 2002 |
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3 |
"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested." |
When talking about his daughter, Princess Anne. |
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4 |
"They're not mating are they?" |
On spotting two robots bumping into each other at the Science Museum in 2000 |
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5 |
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." |
When asked if he would like to stroke a Koala Bear in Australia, 1992. |
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6 |
Philip: "Who are you?"
Simon Kelner: "I'm the editor-in-chief of The Independent, Sir."
Philip: "What are you doing here?"
Kelner: "You invited me."
Philip: "Well, you didn't have to come!"
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At the press reception to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002 |
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7 |
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" |
To residents of the Cayman Islands, 1994 |
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8 |
"It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!" |
After shooting a crocodile in Gambia, 1957 |
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9 |
"Ah, so this is feminist corner then." |
When joining a group of female Labour MPs at a Buckingham Palace reception in 2002. They were wearing name tags with the title Ms on them... |
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10 |
"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" |
To wheelchair bound Susan Edwards and her guide dog in 2002 |
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(Source:
Independent Newspaper online. Compiled from 90 quotes for 90 years 3rd June 2011) |
