Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Marthe Bibesco

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Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Princess Martha Bibescu also known outside of Romania as Marthe Bibesco, was a celebrated Romanian-French writer, socialite, style icon and political hostess. She spent her childhood at the noble Lahovary's estates in Baltotesti and Biarritz, where she had an education in literature. During her life, she traveled to and moved around many European countries and met many contemporary influential political figures. During the post-World War 1 period she rebuilt her family estates. She lived in exile after World War 2 when communist rule in Romania started.

French - Writer | January 28, 1886 - November 28, 1973

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

Marthe Bibesco

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

Marthe Bibesco

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

Marthe Bibesco

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

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

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

Marthe Bibesco

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

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

Words express only the feelings we know already.

Marthe Bibesco

there are no nationalities in heaven.

Marthe Bibesco

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

Marthe Bibesco

... love always betrays its intentions.

Marthe Bibesco

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.

Marthe Bibesco

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Marthe Bibesco

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