Joyce Irene Grenfell (née Phipps) (10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress and comedienne.

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• Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
  Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
  • 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.
  • Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit." (of new clothes)

• Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
  • 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.
  • Poem If I should go before the rest of you

• 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.
  • Poem Ethel

• 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.
  • Poem Three Brothers

• George - don't do that.
  • Catch phrase, used as the title of her book George - Don't Do That (1977)

About

• Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?
  • American journalist, seeing the long queue for her memorial service.

External links

• Monologue: Nursery School - Flowers