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…

- Joyce Grenfell

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

- Joyce Grenfell

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

- Joyce Grenfell

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

- Joyce Grenfell

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

- Joyce Grenfell

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

- Joyce Grenfell

ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

- Joyce Grenfell

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

- Joyce Grenfell

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 livi…

- Joyce Grenfell