Joyce Grenfell Quotes

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Discovery, Funeral

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Sad, Flower, Sunday

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Memorial, Goes On, Hell

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Vests, Shows

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Memories, Great Happiness, Loses

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Night, Sublime, Moments

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• 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

  Thinking, Discovery, Curiosity

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Work, Progress, Doe

  "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Block, Ideas, Panic

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Military, Two, Steps

  'Stately as a Galleon' (1978)

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Spiritual, Believe, Giving

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• 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

  Fashion, Sorry, Aggravation

  "Stately as a Galleon" by Joyce Grenfell, "English Lit.", 1978.

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• 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

  Drawing, Twenties, Youth

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