Prince Charles Quotations

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

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.

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.

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

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

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.

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.

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

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

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

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.

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.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

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.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

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

We shall not forget you, and we shall watch with the closest interest as you embark on this new era of your remarkable history.

We shall never forget that if the Few had failed ... the consequences for this nation would have been unforgettable.

Silent till you see the whites of their eyes

She had also been thinking of getting a dog and calling it Camilla Two.

I am enormously grateful to Mr Fawcett for all he has done over many years and I wish him well with his new business.

China will tonight take responsibility for a place and a people which matter greatly to us all.

I love coming to India. It is emotional.

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

If that were done, the benefits would be felt around the world, and for generations to come.

I think, as probably many of you will know from the experience of family loss, perhaps in your own lives, it is inevitably very difficult to cope with grief at any time, but perhaps you might realize it is even harder when the whole world is watching.

Our hearts go out to you today as they did on that dreadful today.

Our beliefs and values call out for peace and not conflict.

Somehow, we have to find the courage to re-assert the once commonplace belief that human beings have a duty to act as the stewards of creation.

My sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son, who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day.

I was very deeply saddened to hear that Alfred Anderson had died.

I'm shattered and horrified, and the least I can do is to come here and offer my sympathy and support.

Truly the burden of the world rests on your shoulders,

Both our nations have been united by grief and strengthened by the support we have given each other.

What is so distinctive of the great ages of faith surely was that they understood, as well as sacred texts ... the meaning of God's word for all time and its meaning for this time.

We feel proud of you; proud and grateful for everything you have done for your country and the Commonwealth over 50 extraordinary years.

And while saying that, I wonder, too, what extra role the United Nations might be able to play with regard to a country, for instance, like Zimbabwe whose independence celebrations I officiated at on behalf of the queen over 20 years ago and which is now undergoing such a traumatic experience.

Father told me if I ever met a lady in a (very low-cut) dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes

These remarkable awards remind us of the compassion, decency and courage which still exists in every corner of the land.

Addressing all these threats to our long-term survival will clearly require a massive and coordinated response from all sectors of society and in all nations.

You speak very good English. I'm very impressed.

It's funny, the influence that women can have on getting us men sorted out is enormous.

That's so amazing, fantastic, it's so very nice of you to come today, I'm thrilled.

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

I had thought I would be mortally embarrassed but I wasn't!.

I hope other newspapers will show restraint and not use these pictures.

If you make everything over efficient, you suck out, it seems to me, every last drop of what, up to now, has been known as culture.

In my view, the great long-term challenges today, apart from the most urgent need to tackle climate change, is creating meaningful employment for young people.

I can't tell you with what joy I have looked forward to coming back to Fiji.

I am very glad you have heard of it, anyway

I do have some understanding I think, a little, of what people go through with these horrors.

A monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.

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.

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.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

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.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

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.

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

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

Boy, the things I do for England.

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

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

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

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.

What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.

Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food.

The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They help regulate our climate and sustain the lives of some of the poorest people on this Earth.

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.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

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.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

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?

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.

I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.

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.

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.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

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

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

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.

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.

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.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

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.

It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.

. . . 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.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

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

If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for endless tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

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