Joyce Grenfell
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"Joyce Irene Grenfell", Order of the British Empire/OBE was a British 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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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.