Joyce Grenfell Quotes

#1. I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

Joyce Grenfell

#2. Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

#3. Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

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#4. I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

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#5. They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

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#6. We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

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#7. I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

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#8. Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

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#9. There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

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#10. Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

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#11. Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

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#12. Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

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#13. The thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

Joyce Grenfell