22 Princess Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

Princess Elizabeth Bibesco offers thoughtful, plain-spoken insights on value, growth and social life that feel like a gentle guide.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.
#1
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
#2
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
#3
Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.
#4
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Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.
#5
To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.
#6
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
#7
It is easier to be generous than to be just.
#8
Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.
#9
Winter draws what summer paints.
#10
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
#11
We learn nothing by being right.
#12
We are bound to those we love by their imperfections - their perfections help us to explain them to others.
#13
Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.
#14
To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.
#15
Death is part of this life and not of the next.
#16
I always felt a deep malaise in her - her writing and the fluctuations of her brilliant and esoteic conversation led her everywhere but to self-satisfaction.
#17
Prince Antoine Bibesco, when asked (by her mother, Margot Asquith) why his wife didn't do more 'good works', such as visiting a hospital, replied, 'Dearest Margot, Elizabeth visits a hospital three times a week, with the result that the lame walk, the blind see, and the dumb would speak if they could get a word in edgeways.'
#18
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
#19
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A brilliant woman whose perpetual wit made my head swim.
#20
Miss Asquith, who was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries ... looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco.
#21
She is pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun, suddenly protruding with animation.
#22

Princess Elizabeth Bibesco quotes