You really just want to give people a hug. – Prince Charles On missing family during coronavirus lockdown.
The thing about growing older is that your children get taller than you so they can see your bald spots. – Prince Charles
I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. – Prince Charles
That’s called a microphone. It’s a big sausage that picks up everything you say – and you’re starting early. – Prince Charles
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
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? – Prince Charles
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
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
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
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
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. – Prince Charles
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
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance. – Prince Charles
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
