Elizabeth Bibesco's Quotes

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

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

Elizabeth Bibesco

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

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

Elizabeth Bibesco

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Elizabeth Bibesco