Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.
Elizabeth BibescoThe image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
Elizabeth BibescoFriendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Elizabeth BibescoYou don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
Elizabeth BibescoTemptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
Elizabeth BibescoHe is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Elizabeth BibescoTo others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
Elizabeth BibescoEntertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
Elizabeth BibescoTalk 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?
Elizabeth Bibesco