Joyce Grenfell Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest. — Joyce Grenfell

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

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. — Joyce Grenfell

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

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

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. — Joyce Grenfell

Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way. — 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 so sorry for them. — Joyce Grenfell