Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

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

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

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

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  Home, House, Want

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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

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  Witty, Party, Tongue

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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

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  Simplicity, Design, Interior Design

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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

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  Light, Air, Comfort

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

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  Believe, White, Optimism

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• 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.

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  Giving, Goal, House

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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

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  Writing, Hands, Simplicity

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• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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  Design, Virtue, Cardinals

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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

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  House, Made, Worthwhile

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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

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  House, Comfort, Synthesis

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

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  Fool, Born, Unwise

  Elsie De Wolfe (1935). “After all”

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• 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.

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  Running, Writing, Light

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

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  Long, Eating, Good Health

  Elsie De Wolfe (1914). “The House in Good Taste”

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• It is not chic to be too chic.

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  Teenage, Chic

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• 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.

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  Home, Joy, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

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  Details, Accessories, Interior Design

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Interior Design

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

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  Country, Men, House

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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

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  Color, Different, Rooms

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

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  Thinking, Age, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Mistress

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Imagination, Imitation

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

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  Design, Use, Accepting

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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