Joyce 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 most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Heinz R. Pagels

#3. When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.

Ruth A. Hawkins

#4. One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

David Byrne

#6. 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

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#9. True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore De Balzac

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

Joyce Grenfell

#11. We and the trees and the way
Back from the fields of play
Lasted as long as we could.
No more walks in the wood.

John Hollander

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#14. 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

#15. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters

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

Joyce Grenfell

#17. 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

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

Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

#20. I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

Sharlto Copley

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

Joyce Grenfell

#22. In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

I.L. Peretz

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

Joyce Grenfell