56 Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

You 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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