Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

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

Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.

We learn nothing by being right.

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

We are bound to those we love by their imperfections — their perfections help us to explain them to others.

Death is part of this life and not of the next.

Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.

To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.

Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.

To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

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

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.