Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

Winter draws what summer paints.

We learn nothing by being right.

Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

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

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