Courage to live Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This…

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— 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

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Elsie de Wolfe

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand…

— Elsie de Wolfe

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…

— Elsie de Wolfe

It is not chic to be too chic.

— Elsie de Wolfe