“Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her vic...” — Elizabeth Bibesco Quote

“Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.”

“Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.”

“The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?”

“I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.”

“I hardly ever remember my dreams.”

“I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.”