Elsie Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Elsie

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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not. — Elsie De Wolfe

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking. — Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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

Don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous. — Elsie De Wolfe

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

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — 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. — Elsie De Wolfe

Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish. — Elsie Love

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. — Elsie De Wolfe

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

No one chair should be isolated ... — Elsie De Wolfe

Now is as good a time as any to send up a prayer. — Elsie Hillman-Gordon

By realizing the spiritual power of Thought, versus getting into the content of thought, you will make your reality a mentally healthier one — Elsie Spittle

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

It is not chic to be too chic. — Elsie De Wolfe

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. — Elsie De Wolfe

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. — Elsie De Wolfe

The smallest part is worthy of the whole. — Elsie De Wolfe

If I didn't laugh, I'd rip out my hair, one graying strand at a time. — Elsie Love

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

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir. — Julian Fellowes

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

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

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. — Elsie De Wolfe

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in. — Elsie De Wolfe

Every day I'm eternally grateful that when everyone else went right, I made a wide, unprotected left. — Elsie Love

Behind all the falling rain, the sun still hangs in the sky. And if the sun can hang in there through the rain, surely you can, too. — Elsie Hillman-Gordon

There were fairies at Cottingley — Elsie Wright

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect. — Jenny Eclair

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

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

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint. — Elsie De Wolfe

and go over and over in his mind the manifold possibilities, probabilities and potentialities — Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories. — Elsie De Wolfe

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

Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, Would you like to see my plate? — Naomi Novik

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

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

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability. — Elsie De Wolfe

Simplicity, suitability and proportion. — Elsie De Wolfe

Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one. — Ilona Andrews