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La princesse Elizabeth Bibesco, née Elisabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith , est une poétesse et femme de lettres anglophone, épouse du prince Antoine Bibesco, ami de Proust et cousin germain de la comtesse Anna de Noailles. Elle publiait sous le nom d'Elizabeth Bibesco. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. février 1897 – 7. avril 1945
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Elizabeth Bibesco: Citations en anglais

“Winter draws what summer paints.”

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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.”

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

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

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

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

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.”

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Haven (1951)

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

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

“We learn nothing by being right.”

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Haven (1951)

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

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Haven (1951)

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

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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.”

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Marcel Proust

“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.”

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Elizabeth Bibesco

Elizabeth Bowen

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