Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. Elsie de Wolfe More Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe More Quotes From Elsie de Wolfe I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. Elsie de Wolfe change beautiful beauty 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. Elsie de Wolfe home happiness men I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. Elsie de Wolfe optimism white believe You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not. Elsie de Wolfe house want home The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. Elsie de Wolfe cardinals virtue design What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand. Elsie de Wolfe goal house giving I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools. Elsie de Wolfe unwise fool born It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand. Elsie de Wolfe simplicity writing hands don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous. Elsie de Wolfe color different rooms Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room. Elsie de Wolfe light air comfort Simplicity, suitability and proportion. Elsie de Wolfe interior-design simplicity design There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile. Elsie de Wolfe worthwhile made house Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. Elsie de Wolfe good-health eating long 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. Elsie de Wolfe light writing running A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. Elsie de Wolfe synthesis comfort house 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. Elsie de Wolfe house men country 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. Elsie de Wolfe mistress sorrow grief 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. Elsie de Wolfe imitation imagination numbers My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability. Elsie de Wolfe interior-design design Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories. Elsie de Wolfe interior-design accessories details
