Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco
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.

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Ned was sowing his wild oats. 'Poetry,' she whispered, filling the word with night-club implications.

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The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

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Why do other people rob you with their understanding, stealing your discoveries and your guesses, invading the special domain of your insight?

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A wise man weaves a philosophy out of each acceptance life forces upon him.

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Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness — never a list.

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It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

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Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

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He is invariably in a hurry — being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

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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?

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Of all the disguises truth assumes, fact is the most misleading.

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Influencing people... is so 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.

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Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

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It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

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Such a perfect lady! She never raises her voice, she never fidgets, she never contradicts, she never gets untidy.

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Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

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Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

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The austere principles of tact tell the tongue to keep away from the aching thought.

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