Prince Charles Quotes

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

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Conservation must become before recreation.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

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

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

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

Boy, the things I do for England.

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.

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

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

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

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