Milan Kundera
Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929-2023)
Elizabeth, Princess Bibescowas an English socialite, actress and writer between 1921 and 1940. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, the British Prime Minister, and the writer Margot Asquith, and the wife of Antoine Bibesco, a Romanian prince and diplomat.
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Siblings
Violet Bonham Carter
Herbert Asquith
Raymond Asquith
Anthony Asquith
Arthur Asquith
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone
Spouses
Antoine Bibesco
Children
Priscilla Bibesco
About the Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth, Princess Bibescowas an English socialite, actress and writer between 1921 and 1940. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, the British Prime Minister, and the writer Margot Asquith, and the wife of Antoine Bibesco, a Romanian prince and diplomat. She drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen.
6 Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco
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To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess
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It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess
- 3.
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth BibescoBritish writer, and Romanian princess