Joyce Grenfell Quotes

Joyce Grenfell — English Actress born on February 10, 1910, died on November 30, 1979

Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE was 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... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

Joyce Grenfell Quotes

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