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
haste pay tribute
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
men doors lasts
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
cast performers
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
pet
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
air balloons english french heavy immense life loved moment pushed soar
All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
available man socially talks
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
sentence spite
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?
alone sit sprawling thirty
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
cruel knowing miracles
Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
hardly select
Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.
crowded fully hour pays sterile
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
happiness marriage uncertain
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
time yearns
What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
life people pour sooner system trouble
Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.