56 Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

To some people the impossible is impossible.

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

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said, "it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness – never a list...

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.