Elizabeth Bibesco quotes

Elizabeth Bibesco was an English writer, poet, and socialite, known for her brilliant literary works and vibrant presence in European high society. Her novels and short stories often explored themes of love, melancholy, and the complexities of human relationships. She left a lasting influence on early 20th-century literature and intellectual circles. Here are 30 of her quotes:

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
Irony is the hygiene of the mind. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Seeing through is rarely seeing into. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
We learn nothing by being right. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words? View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Death is part of this life and not of the next. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
My soul has gained the freedom of the night. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Winter draws what summer paints. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
We are bound to those we love by their imperfections - their perfections help us to explain them to others. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco
To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner. View quote
Elizabeth Bibesco