Marthe Bibesco
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.Collection: Life
there are no nationalities in heaven.Collection: Equality
Words express only the feelings we know already.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Art
that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.Collection: Literature
marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.Collection: Occupation
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.Collection: History
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.Collection: Love Is
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!Collection: Children
... love always betrays its intentions.Collection: Intention
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.Collection: Greatness
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.Collection: Gossip
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.Collection: Sports