My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability. Elsie de Wolfe More Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe More Quotes From Elsie de Wolfe We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. Elsie de Wolfe design accepting use It is not chic to be too chic. Elsie de Wolfe chic teenage [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color! Elsie de Wolfe acropolis color sight When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. Elsie de Wolfe growing age thinking the smallest part is worthy of the whole. Elsie de Wolfe smallest worthy whole 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. Elsie de Wolfe healthy song men 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. Elsie de Wolfe giving mean art 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. Elsie de Wolfe growing home joy You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud. Elsie de Wolfe interior-design pockets design No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake. Elsie de Wolfe cooking lakes food 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. Elsie de Wolfe sorry home believe Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake. Elsie de Wolfe meals lakes believe I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint. Elsie de Wolfe optimism white believe No one chair should be isolated. Elsie de Wolfe furniture chairs should I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in. Elsie de Wolfe sunshine air doors 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. Elsie de Wolfe style design writing
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