Michael Flanders
Michael Flanders
Michael Henry Flanders OBEwas an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth1 March 1922
july shining sun
In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!
critical stop unless
I am going to be very critical of new positions, ... unless we can stop the bleeding.
british-actor given god intended
If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads.
given god intended
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
mean sincerity sincere
Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
sweet spring ice
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...
sloth ease flanders
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
flanders given ifs
If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.
world able today
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.
ice-cream people eating
Eating people is wrong.
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
jobs comforting purpose
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!