Bibesco Quotes
Collection of top 45 famous quotes about Bibesco
Bibesco Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Bibesco quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
— Marthe Bibesco
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
There are no nationalities in heaven.
— Marthe Bibesco
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...
— Elizabeth Bibesco
That sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
— Marthe Bibesco
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
My soul has gained the freedom of the night
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
— Marthe Bibesco
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
— Marthe Bibesco
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
— Marthe Bibesco
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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
Love always betrays its intentions.
— Marthe Bibesco
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
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
We learn nothing by being right.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
— Marthe Bibesco
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...
— Marthe Bibesco
Words express only the feelings we know already.
— Marthe Bibesco
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
— Elizabeth Bibesco
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
