Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
