Elizabeth Bibesco

Writer

1897-02-26 – 1945-04-07

Elizabeth Bibesco was an English writer and socialite whose novels and short fiction drew on interwar high society and diplomatic life. She was the daughter of former British prime minister H. H. Asquith.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
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The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
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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?
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Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
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To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
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He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
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