He wasn't called the Gabby Duke for nothin...
he said to British students in China on a state visit that they shouldn't stay in China too long because he thought he'd leave with "Slitty eyes"“
British women can’t cook” – in Britain in 1966.
“What do you gargle with – pebbles?” – speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is” – on a visit to Canada in 1969.
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” – during the 1981 recession“It looks like a tart’s bedroom” – on seeing plans for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
“Yak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on” – shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside.
“We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it” – about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” – to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout.
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” – in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.
“Bloody silly fool!” – in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” – pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.
“Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf” – to young deaf people in Cardiff in 1999, referring to a school’s steel band.
There's loads more.
