Joyce Grenfell Quotes

Joyce Grenfell delivers witty snapshots of daily chaos, fashion and history, making readers smile.

17 quotes

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

  2. 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.

  3. Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.

  4. George - don't do that.

  5. Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?

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

  7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  13. 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.

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

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

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

  17. “Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.”