We learn nothing by being right.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

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

- Elizabeth Bibesco

To some people the impossible is impossible.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

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

- Elizabeth Bibesco