Filipe, Duque de Edimburgo Frases famosas
“O homem que inventou o tapete vermelho precisava ter sua cabeça examinada.”
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined
durante sua visita de estado ao Brasil em novembro de 1968, publicada no The Reality of Monarchy.
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Em 1981 sobre uma recessão económica. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
“Se ficarem aqui mais tempo, ficam com os olhos em bico.”
If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.
Mensagem dada a um grupo de estudantes britânicos na China em 1986. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)'
“Não deve estar aqui há muito tempo, não tem uma pança.”
You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly.
Dito a um cidadão britânico em Budapeste, Hungria em 1933. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
Filipe, Duque de Edimburgo frases e citações
I never see any home-cooking. All I get is fancy stuff
citado em "Observer", de 28 de outubro de 1962, conforme citado em "The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation" - Página 88, de Elizabeth M. Knowles - Publicado por Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0198662297, 9780198662297 - 694 páginas
“Uma arma não é mais perigosa do que um bastão de cricket nas mãos de um louco.”
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman
publicado em matéria da BBC de 27 de maio de 1999.
“A senhora tem mosquitos, eu tenho a imprensa.”
You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.
Durante uma conversa em 1996 com a enfermeira-chefe de um hospital numa visita ás Caraíbas. Publicado no The Reality of Monarchy (1970) de Andrew Duncan.
“As mulheres britânicas não sabem cozinhar.”
British women can't cook.
Declaração feita em 1966. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
Sobre o programa Apollo norte-americano. Conferência de imprensa em São Paula, Brasil (Novembro de 1968). Publicado no The Reality of Monarchy (1970) de Andrew Duncan.
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.
Declaração feita em 1986. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)'
“Vocês não descendem quase todos de piratas?”
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
Dito a um habitante das Ilhas Caimão em 1994. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.
Dito durante uma visita a Lockerbie em 1993 a um homem que vivia numa rua onde onze pessoas tinham sido mortas pelos destroços de um avião. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
You are a woman, aren't you?
Após aceitar um presente de uma mulher queniana. Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
“Então conseguiu não ser comido?”
You managed not to get eaten then?
Dito a um estudante britânico na Papua-Nova Guiné, Citado em "Long line of princely gaffes" na BBC News (1 de Março de 2002)
Filipe, Duque de Edimburgo: Frases em inglês
“If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said to a group of British students in China in 1986, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1980s
“You look like you’re ready for bed!”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said in 2003 to President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, as quoted in "Prince Philip quotes: Relive 65 classic gaffes as Duke of Edinburgh celebrates 65th wedding anniversary" http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-philip-quotes-relive-65-1445185
2000s
“You are a woman, aren't you?”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
After accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)
2000s
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1986 statement as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1980s
“Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said at the University of Salford to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket, as quoted in of the gaffe: Prince Philip’s top ten embarrassing moments" in The Daily Mirror (14 December 2009) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-10s/2009/12/14/gift-of-the-gaffe-prince-philip-s-top-ten-embarrassing-moments-115875-21896895/"Gift
2000s
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
On marriage, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said to the Mayor of Waltham Forest who uses a mobility scooter, as quoted in "Duke of Edinburgh has fun with mobility scooter jokes on London visit" http://www.metro.co.uk/news/894691-duke-of-edinburgh-has-fun-with-mobility-scooter-jokes-on-london-visit, Metro (29 March 2012)
“Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said to a blind, wheelchair-bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog, as quoted in "Philip tells blind woman: 'They've got eating dogs for anorexics'" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1393020/Philip-tells-blind-woman-Theyve-got-eating-dogs-for-anorexics.html in The Telegraph (3 May 2002)
2000s
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said in a letter to The Oldie magazine after being voted "Consort of the Year", as quoted in "Prince Philip voted 'Consort of the Year'" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12424132, BBC News (11 February 2011)
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet, as quoted in "Prince Philip's gaffes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm, BBC News (10 August 1999)
1990s
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
In 1981, in reference to an economic recession, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1980s
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Statement of 1966, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1960s
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Response to Elizabeth Rendle, a 24-year-old, who, when introduced to the prince, said that she worked as a barmaid in a nightclub, as quoted in "Prince Philip in strip club gaffe" http://web.archive.org/web/20100315011557/asia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100312/tts-britain-royals-offbeat-cac1e9b.html (12 March 2010), Yahoo! News
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said to multi-racial dance troupe Diversity at the 2009 Royal Variety Performance, as quoted in Prince Philip asks Diversity, 'Are you all one family?'" in The Mirror (20 December 2009) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/20/are-you-all-one-family-philip-asks-diversity-115875-21910150/"
2000s
“Just take the f___ing picture.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said during an official photo shoot of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/10/prince-philip-tells-photographer-just-take-the-fucking-picture in 2015.
2000s
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Fonte: At Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme in 2006, https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/
“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Fonte: At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965. https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/
“Bits are beginning to drop off.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Fonte: On approaching his 90th birthday, 2011
“Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Fonte: Prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013.
“Just take the thing! Just take the fucking picture!”
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Said during an official photo shoot of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/10/prince-philip-tells-photographer-just-take-the-fucking-picture in 2015.
2000s
