Elsie De Wolfe Quotes
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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
— Elsie De Wolfe
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
![Elsie De Wolfe Quotes By Elsie De Wolfe: [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/elsie-de-wolfe-quotes-by-elsie-de-wolfe-1488033.jpg "Elsie De Wolfe Quotes By Elsie De Wolfe: [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige!")
[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!
— 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
I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
— Elsie De Wolfe
No one chair should be isolated ...
— Elsie De Wolfe
Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
— Elsie De Wolfe
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
Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
— Elsie De Wolfe
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
— Elsie De Wolfe
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
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
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
— Elsie De Wolfe
The smallest part is worthy of the whole.
— Elsie De Wolfe
My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
— 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
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
— Elsie De Wolfe
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
I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
— 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 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
You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
— Elsie De Wolfe