Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBEwas a British comedian, actress and, in her time, one of the country's best loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films.:jacket She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her social background to work...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth10 February 1910
spiritual believe giving
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking
love family happiness
Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!
flower sunday self
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.
sorry aggravation looks
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.
military two steps
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
thinking discovery curiosity
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.
drawing twenties youth
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
vests shows
I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.
work progress today
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
block ideas panic
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
memorial goes-on hell
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
memories great-happiness loses
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
night sublime moments
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
pursuit-of-happiness discovery funeral
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.