Elizabeth Bibesco famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Thank You
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Love #Being Alone #Bye
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#People #Hospitality #Method
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Endurance #Indecision #Form
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

#Reading #Holocaust #Bombs
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

#Friendship #Casts #Performers
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

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

#Ideas #Religion #Ten Commandments
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Punishment #Joy
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Temptation #Wicked #Virtuous
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Love Is #Free Love #Sometimes
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Happiness #Joy #Inventory
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Friendship #Jobs #Dangerous
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Silence #Revealing #Reticence
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Men #Doors #Lasts
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Forgotten
We learn nothing by being right.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco
To some people the impossible is impossible.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#People #Impossible
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Cutting #Loss #Gains
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Hope #Luck #Certainty
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Hygiene #Mind #Irony
My soul has gained the freedom of the night
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Night #Soul
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Helping
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Haste #Pay #Tribute
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Joy #Unexpected #Compare
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Children #Growing Up #People

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