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
We learn nothing by being right.
loss cutting gains
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
haste pay tribute
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
perfect half moments
Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.
men doors lasts
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
children growing-up people
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
ideas religion ten-commandments
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
friendship jobs dangerous
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
hygiene mind irony
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
endurance indecision form
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
people hospitality method
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
helping right-words
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
joy unexpected compare
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
happiness joy brightness
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...