Best 35 quotes of Elsie De Wolfe on MyQuotes

Elsie De Wolfe

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    It is not chic to be too chic.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    No one chair should be isolated.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

  • By Anonym
    Elsie De Wolfe

    You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.