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Elizabeth Lucy, Princess Bibesco was an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian prince. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. February 1897 – 7. April 1945
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Elizabeth Bibesco: 21 quotes1 like

Famous Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

“Winter draws what summer paints.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“We are bound to those we love by their imperfections — their perfections help us to explain them to others.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Portrait of Caroline
Haven (1951)

“Death is part of this life and not of the next.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“My soul has gained the freedom of the night.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Poems (1928)
Haven (1951)

“It is easier to be generous than to be just.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“We learn nothing by being right.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“She is pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun, suddenly protruding with animation.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Virginia Woolf

“Miss Asquith, who was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries … looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Marcel Proust

“A brilliant woman whose perpetual wit made my head swim.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

David Low

“Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world — a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

Elizabeth Bowen

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