As Britain's Prince Philip retires from his duties at the aged of 95, we take a look back at some of the most remarkable things to have come out of the mouth of the contrary royal granddad who always spoke before he thought.
When he told the Queen, "Yak, yak, yak; Come on, get a move on," he summed up that childhood feeling when your mum would run into someone she knew in the supermarket.
He doesn't have much time for Tom Jones... "What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer."
Like, he really doesn't get the Tom Jones appeal... "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."
Not an Elton John fan either... He said at a 2001 Royal Variety performance, "I wish he'd turn the microphone off."
He also threw some shade at the singer's car saying, "Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car is it?"
While on a visit to Canada in 1969, he was clearly growing tired of attending official openings to the point of no longer caring what it was... "I declare this thing open, whatever it is."
Though he did sometimes share an anecdote or two while at these openings... "During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying 'more open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual."
He can hold a grudge... "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family."
He knows people are hard to please, saying during the recession in the 80s... "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure, now they are complaining they are unemployed."
At a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting he shared his views on Cantonese cuisine... "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an airplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
He has great faith in the Scottish driving test system, saying in 1995, "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
He's great with the kids.... As recalled by David Davin-Power (who was there) he asked a ten year old boy in Belfast "How were you chosen to be here today? Were you the cleanest in your class?"
Always best to check... "You are a woman, aren't you?" He said to a local Kenyan woman in 1984 after being presented with a gift.
Koalas... no thanks... "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease"
Shattering dreams in 2001, telling a 13-year-old "You're too fat to be an astronaut."
He has a dark sense of humour, saying in 2002 to a blind woman, "Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?"
"Just take the f***ing picture" – he had no time for smiles in 2015.
"I hope he breaks his bloody neck" – it just seems he doesn't like photographers at all really...
After Princess Anne's attempted kidnapping in 1974... "If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity."
The old romantic... "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."
He can appreciate a good dictatorship, saying to the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, "It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't rule by its people."
So is his daughter a good artist or...? "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons." He said at an Ethiopian art exhibition.
During the Queen's State Visit to Ireland six years ago, Philip looked longingly at a pint of the black stuff in the Guinness Storehouse and enquired "Is it made with Liffey water?."
While visiting a factory in Scotland, he was so concerned over the quality of work on a fuse box he thought "It looked as though it had been put in by an Indian."
And finally, ever mindful of political correctness, on a visit to Australia he asked a group of Aborigines "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
