Marthe Bibesco

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

— Marthe Bibesco

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world…

— Marthe Bibesco

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

— Marthe Bibesco

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only…

— Marthe Bibesco

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

— Marthe Bibesco

Words express only the feelings we know already.

— Marthe Bibesco

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what…

— Marthe Bibesco

there are no nationalities in heaven.

— Marthe Bibesco

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

— Marthe Bibesco

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

— Marthe Bibesco

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

— Marthe Bibesco

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love…

— Marthe Bibesco

... love always betrays its intentions.

— Marthe Bibesco