Joyce Grenfell quotes

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos. (Joyce Grenfell)
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 sorry for them. View quote
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. View quote
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor, Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking. View quote
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Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she? View quote
Joyce Grenfell
If I should go before the rest of you, Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone, Nor, when I'm gone, speak in a Sunday voice, But be the usual selves That I have known. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
I was allowed to slave for them For ever and evermore. Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carry For my Three Brothers, Jim and Bob and Harry. View quote
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I don't understand Ethel. I don't, I don't really. She's one of my very best friends, Just about the best, nearly. She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is, Dainty and refined, I mean she'd never do or say Anything unkind. But get her inside a stadium And she seems to go out of her mind. View quote
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George - don't do that. (Joyce Grenfell)

Joyce Grenfell

Occupation: British Comedian
Born: February 10, 1910
Died: November 30, 1979
Quotes count: 11
Wikipedia: Joyce Grenfell

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