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Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes (1897-1945)
Writer, Poet
About Elizabeth Bibesco
Princess Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco (26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer and poet, active between 1921 and 1940. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951.
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“Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.”
“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?”
“Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.”
“Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.”
“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
“We are bound to those we love by their imperfections — their perfections help us to explain them to others.”
“To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.”
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S. N. Behrman on Elizabeth Bibesco
“I always felt a deep malaise in her — her writing and the fluctuations of her brilliant and esoteic conversation led her everywhere but to self-satisfaction.”
Anecdote about Antoine on Elizabeth Bibesco
“Prince Antoine Bibesco, when asked (by her mother, Margot Asquith) why his wife didn't do more "good works", such as visiting a hospital, replied, "Dearest Margot, Elizabeth visits a hospital three times a week, with the result that the lame walk, the blind see, and the dumb would speak if they could get a word in edgeways."”
About Elizabeth Bibesco
Princess Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco (26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer and poet, active between 1921 and 1940. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951.