Elizabeth Bibesco quotes

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
Elizabeth Bibesco
We learn nothing by being right.
Elizabeth Bibesco
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
Elizabeth Bibesco
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
Elizabeth Bibesco
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Death is part of this life and not of the next. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
My soul has gained the freedom of the night.
Elizabeth Bibesco
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Winter draws what summer paints.
Elizabeth Bibesco
To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.
Elizabeth Bibesco
We are bound to those we love by their imperfections - their perfections help us to explain them to others.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.
Elizabeth Bibesco
To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.
Elizabeth Bibesco