Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

British - Poet | February 26, 1897 - April 7, 1945

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

WisdomBlessedForgettingRemembering

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

Elizabeth Bibesco

HappinessLightAchievementFeel

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

Elizabeth Bibesco

LifeBeautifulUglyDoubtBelonging

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.

Elizabeth Bibesco

LifeLightMomentLovedMy LifeYou

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

Elizabeth Bibesco

PetFeelYouIndependentBalloons

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Elizabeth Bibesco

SeeingThroughRarely

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco

MindIronyHygiene

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.

Elizabeth Bibesco

MorningDayPeacePeopleMoonHands

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Elizabeth Bibesco

FutureMemoryYouYourPocketsFill

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

Elizabeth Bibesco

MeWorldYouLivedBeatArtists

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

ManDoorSometimesRoomLastWho

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

HopeLuckCertaintyBringCall

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