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Prince Charles

105 quotes in 735 categories

Prince Charles says everyone has a special ability given by God. He warns that fast food hides big social and environmental costs, and he calls climate change the biggest threat to humanity. He also remembers a time when scholars in the medieval Islamic world flourished.

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Charles III is the king of the United Kingdom and fourteen other Commonwealth realms.

Quick Facts About Prince Charles

Notable works: The Prince's Choice: A Personal Selection From Shakespeare

Quotes by Prince Charles

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

Achievement

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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

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I'd rather go by bus.

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Boy, the things I do for England.

Boys

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I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

Being

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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Food

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“I'm a dangerous person because I mind about things.”

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You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.

Bored

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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Disaster

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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Existence

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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.

Cheap food

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There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly…

Animal

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It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and…

Architecture

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We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren

Future

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All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the…

Dad

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The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her…

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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

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My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies…

Alive

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I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and…

Change

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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the…

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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the…

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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the…

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. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the…

Basketball

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What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional…

Climate

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If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still…

Alive

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Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions…

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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social…

Advent

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Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater…

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Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the…

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If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific…

Absolutes

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The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth…

Alive

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The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on…

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Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere,…

Affair

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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

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We would never comment on private correspondence.

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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

Ability

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For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.

Grandfather

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Prince Charles by topic

Climate (18) People (15) Climate change (13) World (12) Environment (12)