Michael Flanders Quotes & Sayings

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

In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not! — Michael Flanders

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

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

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways. — Michael Flanders

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. — Michael Flanders

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

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways. — Michael Flanders

Eating people is wrong. — Michael Flanders

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