“We are bound to those we love by their imperfections — their perfections help us to explain them to others.”Elizabeth Bibesco Haven (1951)
“Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.”Elizabeth Bibesco Haven (1951)
“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