Military Quote by Joyce Grenfell

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

Joyce Grenfell

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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

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

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the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.”

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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…

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

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