Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Profession : Poet

Birth : February 26, 1897

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

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

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.

Elizabeth Bibesco