Joyce Grenfell quotes
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“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.”
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“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.”
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“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”
-- Joyce GrenfellSource : "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.
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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.”
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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.”
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“ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.”
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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 GrenfellSource : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”
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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 GrenfellSource : 'Stately as a Galleon' (1978)
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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 GrenfellSource : "Stately as a Galleon" by Joyce Grenfell, "English Lit.", 1978.
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“Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.”
-- Joyce GrenfellSource : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”
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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 GrenfellSource : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”
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“Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!”
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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
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