Grenfell Quotes

#1. I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

Dorothy Atkinson

#2. The course of George St. Leger Grenfell's life was a continuing act of violence against the sanctities of Victorian life, and especially against its inmost essence, the family. And indeed, the large Grenfell family was an overpowering aggregation, even by the ample Victorian standard.

Stephen Z. Starr

#3. And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Julian Grenfell

#4. Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Wilfred Grenfell

#5. 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

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

Joyce Grenfell

#7. I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

Wilfred Grenfell

#8. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

Wilfred Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#13. The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

Wilfred Grenfell

#14. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Wilfred Grenfell

#15. Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

Wilfred Grenfell

#16. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.

Wilfred Grenfell

#17. The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.

Julian Grenfell

#18. God hates a coward."
I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Joyce Grenfell

#20. I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

Julian Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#22. 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.

Joyce Grenfell

#23. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

Wilfred Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#26. The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Wilfred Grenfell

#27. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Wilfred Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#30. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

Julian Grenfell