Best Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco (Top 10)
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
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You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
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It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
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Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
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It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
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Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
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To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
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Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
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More Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
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Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
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The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
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