We learn nothing by being right. Elizabeth Bibesco More Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco More Quotes From Elizabeth Bibesco Free love is sometimes love but never freedom. Elizabeth Bibesco free-love love-is sometimes It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses. Elizabeth Bibesco gains cutting loss We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. Elizabeth Bibesco certainty luck hope Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. Elizabeth Bibesco dangerous friendship jobs Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? Elizabeth Bibesco punishment joy 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. Elizabeth Bibesco growing-up children people Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. Elizabeth Bibesco virtuous wicked temptation 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 flowers moon love night There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one. Elizabeth Bibesco something feel you pet 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 will ugly beautiful life 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 cast playing others know 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 feel light personality happiness 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 day morning peace people 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 difficult grass What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! Elizabeth Bibesco thing marriage uncertain happiness 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 moment you light life The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! Elizabeth Bibesco hour how crowded anticipation 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 moment beautiful beauty life 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 look health world thinking 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 chapter end everything done
