Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Joyce Grenfell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Joyce Grenfell.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Irene Grenfell OBE was an English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs and monologues she wrote and performed, at first in revues and later in her solo shows. She never appeared as a stage actress, but had roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's series. She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a writer, she was the first radio critic for The Observer, contributed to Punch and published a volume of memoirs.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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.
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. — © Joyce Grenfell
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.
I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking
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 have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
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.
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
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