Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
British - Poet February 26, 1897 - April 7, 1945

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
Elizabeth Bibesco

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Elizabeth Bibesco

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.
Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.
Elizabeth Bibesco