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Joyce Grenfell
7 quotes
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor, Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stately as a Galleon (1978), "Stately as a Galleon
“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 sorry for them.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit." (of new clothes)
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit.
“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.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't understand Ethel. I don't, I don't really. She's one of my very best friends, Just about the best, nearly. She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is, Dainty and refined, I mean she'd never do or say Anything unkind. But get her inside a stadium And she seems to go out of her mind.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was allowed to slave for them For ever and evermore. Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carry For my Three Brothers, Jim and Bob and Harry.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“George - don't do that.”
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catch phrase, used as the title of a book collecting her monologues, George - Don't Do That (1977)