Marthe Bibesco Quotes

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

Marthe Bibesco

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Marthe Bibesco

#6. Stars will be looking up to you

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. 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

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

J.K. Rowling

#9. 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

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

Marthe Bibesco

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

Sarah Dessen

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

Marthe Bibesco

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

Marthe Bibesco

#14. Love always betrays its intentions.

Marthe Bibesco

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

David Gilmour

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

Barry England

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

Marthe Bibesco

#20. 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

#21. There are no nationalities in heaven.

Marthe Bibesco

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

Marthe Bibesco

#23. 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

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

Anne Frank