Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
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.
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?
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
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.
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.