Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
Bibesco, Elizabeth. I Have Only Myself to Blame. George H. Doran Company, 1921, p. 147.
His perspective is that it takes major compromise on both parties to make peace. As long as one or both of the parties have hope that they do not have to compromise, they will not and peace is not achieved. At the same time, if either part is certain that they are right or will win in the end, they will not likely compromise—hence Hopkin’s statement.
Elizabeth Lucy, Princess Bibesco was an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian prince. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, 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.
