Joyce Grenfell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Pursuit Of Happiness #Discovery #Funeral
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Night #Sublime #Moments
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Work #Progress #Doe
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Memories
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
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Block #Ideas #Panic
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
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
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

#Sorry #Aggravation #Looks
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Memorial #Goes On #Hell
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

#Flower #Sunday #Self
Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
-- Joyce Grenfell

#Love #Family #Happiness
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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