Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

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

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.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

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.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting