“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.”

—  Joyce Grenfell

Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit." (of new clothes)

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British comedian, singer, actress 1910–1979

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