Elizabeth Bibesco

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly? ”

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events? ”

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! ”

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. ”

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable. ”

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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