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Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

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

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

Know Others Playing Cast Even Part

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Alone Better Grass Thirty Difficult

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Life Beauty Beautiful Moment Early

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Elizabeth Bibesco

Marriage Happiness Uncertain Elusive

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

Friendship Job Admit Dangerous Also

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Live Health World Thinking Look

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Elizabeth Bibesco

End Go Chapter Done Living Events

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Elizabeth Bibesco

Anticipation Hour Crowded How Pays

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Wife Man Lunch Everything Well Who

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Passion She Her Seems Victims

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

Elizabeth Bibesco

Love Flowers Moon Night Magic White

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Time Impossible First Time First

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