Author: Elizabeth Bibesco

Quotes

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

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

- Elizabeth Bibesco

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

- Elizabeth Bibesco

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

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

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

- Elizabeth Bibesco

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

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