Joyce Grenfell
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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."
- George - don't do that.
- Catch phrase, used as the title of her book George - Don't Do That (1977)
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- Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?
- American journalist, seeing the long queue for her memorial service. [1]