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

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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

change beautiful beauty

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

tongue party witty

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.

home happiness men

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. by Elsie de Wolfe

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

optimism white believe

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or no... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

house want home

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. by Elsie de Wolfe

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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.

goal house giving

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who ha... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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.

simplicity writing hands

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or yo... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

color different rooms

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

light air comfort

Simplicity, suitability and proportion. by Elsie de Wolfe

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

interior-design simplicity design

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

worthwhile made house

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temp... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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.

light writing running

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradi... by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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.

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.

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.

imitation imagination numbers

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability. by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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