Top 100 Prince Charles Sayings
#1. The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.
Jay Leno
#2. When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Robin Williams
#3. I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
Rowan Williams
#4. corgi 1. n. A high class hound, such as those that accompany the Queen. 2. n. A high class hound, such as the one that accompanies Prince Charles.
VIZ
#5. Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
Madonna Ciccone
#6. Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
Hamish Bowles
#7. Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
Des Hanafin
#8. The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
Jonathan Sacks
#9. But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Kate Bush
#10. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
Stephen Richards
#11. When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.
Dave Barry
#12. For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
Andrew Morton
#13. Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne Westwood
#14. I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.
Robbie Coltraine
#15. Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
Anthony Holden
#16. But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else...
Martha Finley
#17. Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.
Joan Rivers
#18. I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
Donatella Versace
#19. It doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom
seen
or that we are too senseless to go
insane.
coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
coffee.
Charles Bukowski
#20. I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
Steven Morrissey
#21. Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.
David Cannadine
#22. I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden
#23. Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
Morrissey
#24. Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
Dominic West
#25. I like to think of myself as Prince Charles's friend. He's a great fellow. There are always people trying to knock him, but The Prince's Trust is one of the biggest supporters of young people in Britain.
Jools Holland
#26. The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
Vivienne Westwood
#27. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
Martin McGuinness
#28. Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
Lord Mountbatten
#29. I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
Prince Charles
#30. Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
Jesse McCartney
#31. The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
Prince Charles
#32. I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
Prince Charles
#33. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#34. There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
Prince Charles
#35. Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Anthony Holden
#37. All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.
Prince Charles
#38. The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking.
Charles Baudelaire
#39. We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
Prince Charles
#40. Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
Prince Charles
#41. To whom belongest thou? - 1Samuel 30:13 No neutralities can exist in religion. We are either ranked under the banner of Prince Immanuel, to serve and fight His battles, or we are vassals of the black prince, Satan. To whom belongest thou?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Prince Charles
#44. The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
Prince Charles
#46. This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
Prince Charles
#47. If the day is not going well you can start it again at any time
Chris Hutchins
#48. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#49. The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
Charles Perrault
#50. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
Prince Charles
#51. We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
Prince Charles
#52. I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
Prince Charles
#53. The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.
Prince Charles
#54. There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
Prince Charles
#55. When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.
Horace Walpole
#56. While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.
Prince Charles
#57. I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever
Prince Charles
#58. Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
Prince Charles
#59. Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Prince Charles
#60. We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren
Prince Charles
#61. The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
Prince Charles
#62. When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.
Prince Charles
#63. That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
Prince Charles
#64. If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
Prince Charles
#65. It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
Prince Charles
#67. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.
Charles Baudelaire
#68. As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
Prince Charles
#69. If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
Prince Charles
#70. Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
Prince Charles
#71. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
Prince Charles
#72. In the circle of yellow lamplight,
These few roof-beams and columns
Of what could be a Mogul Emperor's palace.
The Prince chews his long nails,
The Princess lowers her green eyelids.
They both smoke too much,
Never go to bed before daybreak.
Charles Simic
#74. Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
Prince Charles
#75. I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
Prince Charles
#76. It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
#77. To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Prince Charles
#78. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
Charles Spurgeon
#79. Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
Prince Charles
#80. I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
Prince Charles
#82. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Prince Charles
#83. There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
Prince Charles
#84. One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.
Prince Charles
#85. Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
Prince Charles
#88. Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Prince Charles
#89. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Prince Charles
#91. If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
Prince Charles
#92. As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
Prince Charles
#93. Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
Prince Charles
#94. Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted
Charles Dickens
#95. It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital
Prince Charles
#96. A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
Prince Charles
#97. It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet
Prince Charles
#98. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
Prince Charles
#99. I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
Prince Charles
#100. In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here
to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
