Marthe Bibesco famous quotes

Words express only the feelings we know already.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Feelings #Knows

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Life #Color #Design

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Art #Soul #Feelings

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Occupation #Calamity

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Literature #Sunlight

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#History #Upside Down #Immortality

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

#Love Is #Ideas #Solitude

... love always betrays its intentions.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Intention #Betray #Love Always

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Children #Tired #Likes And Dislikes

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Greatness #Two #People

there are no nationalities in heaven.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Equality #Heaven #Nationality

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Gossip #House #Royal

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.
-- Marthe Bibesco

#Sports #Father #Passion