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Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: My soul has gained the freedom of the night

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.

It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: We learn nothing by being right.

We learn nothing by being right.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

Elizabeth Bibesco quotes: 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.

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.