Best 22 quotes of Elizabeth Bibesco on MyQuotes

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

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

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

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.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

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?

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

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

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

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