Joyce Grenfell quotes:

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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