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
descends fine hold impossible knowing morning peace perfect wake
To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
cruel knowing miracles
Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
blessed
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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
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.