Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

"'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.' "

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. "

"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough. "

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind. "