Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth, Princess Bibescowas an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 February 1897
people impossible
To some people the impossible is impossible.
friendship casts performers
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.
love being-alone bye
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
reading holocaust bombs
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.
mind stranger
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
seeing
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
inspirational positive thank-you
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
perfect half moments
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.
We learn nothing by being right.
love-is free-love sometimes
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
temptation wicked virtuous
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
hope luck certainty
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
night soul my-soul
My soul has gained the freedom of the night
men doors lasts
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.