Joyce Grenfell

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Happiness
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
- Joyce Grenfell
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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
- Joyce Grenfell
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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
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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
Collection: Sad
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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
Collection: Memories
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Memorial
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I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Vests
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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
Collection: Thinking
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Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Love
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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
Collection: Military
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ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Block
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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
Collection: Spiritual
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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
Collection: Drawing