Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth, Princess Bibescowas an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 February 1897
cruel knowing miracles
Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
alone sit sprawling thirty
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
sentence spite
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
available man socially talks
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
air balloons english french heavy immense life loved moment pushed soar
All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
pet
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
cast performers
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
punishment joy
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
forgotten
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
love-is free-love sometimes
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
temptation wicked virtuous
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
silence revealing reticence
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
hope luck certainty
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
night soul my-soul
My soul has gained the freedom of the night