17 Quotes by Joyce Grenfell

If I should go before the rest of youBreak 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 come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

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.

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.

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

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