George Grossmith Quotes

#1. He said he wouldn't stay, as he didn't care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as he went out. Must get the scraper removed, or else I shall get into a scrape. I don't often make jokes.

George Grossmith

#2. Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

George Grossmith

#3. Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

George Grossmith

#4. It's the diary that makes the man.

George Grossmith

#5. ...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.

George Grossmith

#6. What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?

George Grossmith

#7. . . . doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?

George Grossmith

#8. I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

George Grossmith