Prince Charles Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

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

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

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

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

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

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

Conservation must become before recreation.

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.

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.

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.

Boy, the things I do for England.

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

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

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.