ON CELEBRITY
關(guān)于名人

‘What do you gargle with — pebbles?’ To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. He later added: ‘It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs.’
1969年在皇家匯演上聽過Tom Jones（威爾士傳奇歌唱藝術(shù)家）的演唱后，他問：“你都拿什么東西漱口的？鵝卵石嗎??？”——親王隨后解釋說：“我真的完全不能理解一個人是怎么能憑唱難聽到死的歌，而成為如此有名的人的？”

‘Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car, is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.’ To near-neighbour Elton John after hearing that he had sold his Watford FC-themed Aston Martin in 2001.
2001年當(dāng)親王聽說自己的皇家鄰居、英國著名歌手Elton John賣掉了他的限量版阿斯頓馬丁跑車后對他說：“哦！你就是那輛恐怖跑車的主人??？我們開車去溫莎城堡時經(jīng)?？吹剿??！?/div>

‘I wish he’d turn the microphone off!’ During Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show in 2001.
2001年當(dāng)Elton John在皇家匯演上表演時親王說：我真希望他把麥克風(fēng)關(guān)了。

ON FOOD & DRINK
評價食物和酒

‘Get me a beer. I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer!’ On being offered fine Italian wines by Prime Minister Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.
2000年在羅馬訪問的一次晚宴上，時任意大利總理的Giuliano Amato為他遞上一杯上好的意大利紅酒，親王說：給我杯啤酒。我不管是哪種，反正給我杯啤酒！

ON CLASS & MONEY
評論階級和金錢

‘People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.’ In 2000.
2000年他說：人們都覺得在我們的世界里有嚴格的等級制度，但其實公爵們盡娶了些歌女、有的甚至還娶了美國人！

‘If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort, provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.’ To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002.
2002年對飛機研究中心的人說：如果你們和我們一樣時常需要到處飛，你就會感激飛機設(shè)計上的巨大進步：更少噪音、更多舒適。不過前提是別坐那種叫“經(jīng)濟艙”的地方，聽聽都嚇人。

‘We go into the red next year. I shall probably have to give up polo.’ On the Royal Family’s finances in 1969.
1969年提及皇室家庭的財政情況時說：明年我們的經(jīng)濟情況不會太好了，我可能都不得不放棄打馬球了。

‘Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.’ Said at the height of the recession in 1981.
1981年經(jīng)濟大蕭條最嚴重的時候他說：每個人都說你們皇室成員應(yīng)該多休閑、少管事，現(xiàn)在他們又來抱怨丟了工作！

ON ART & FASHION
評論藝術(shù)和時尚

‘It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons.’ On seeing an exhibition of ‘primitive’ Ethiopian art in 1965.
1965年參觀埃塞俄比亞“原始藝術(shù)”展時說：這看起來像是我女兒從學(xué)校藝術(shù)課上帶回來的東西。