Marthe Bibesco Quotes

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

Marthe Bibesco

#2. But wait till it happens to you! The ack-ack guns make so much noise you can't hear your own voice.

Anne Frank

#3. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

Jess Walter

#4. Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Marthe Bibesco

#5. There are no nationalities in heaven.

Marthe Bibesco

#6. 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

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

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#8. Tomorrow will be better.' It was already tomorrow.

Barry England

#9. Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

David Gilmour

#10. 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.

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#11. 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!

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#12. Love always betrays its intentions.

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#13. That sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

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#14. Words express only the feelings we know already.

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#15. If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.

Sarah Dessen

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

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#17. THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a

Diana Gabaldon

#18. I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

J.K. Rowling

#19. Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

Tony Bishop

#20. Stars will be looking up to you

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Marthe Bibesco

#22. I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Atticus Shaffer

#23. And then I save up for a ring and ask you to marry me. And then, if everything goes the way I want, you agree. And then whatever you want. As long as you're with me, I know things will be alright

Liz Reinhardt

#24. 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