Michael Flanders Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
March 1, 1922 – April, 14, 1975.

Michael Henry Flanders OBE was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann.

Also known as Broadcaster, Writer

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

Michael Flanders
- Live
- Idle
- Sloth
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Michael Flanders
- God
- Intended
- Railways

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders
- Job
- Purpose
- Back
January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

Michael Flanders
- Hours
- March
- Fingers
Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

Michael Flanders
- Mean
- Always
- Sincere
In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!

Michael Flanders
- Sun
- Shining
- July
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

Michael Flanders
- Understand
- Problems
- Poor
Eating people is wrong...

Michael Flanders
- People
- Wrong
- Eating

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

Michael Flanders
- Best
- Rest
- English