Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

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• It is not chic to be too chic.
• I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
• Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
• I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
• 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-…
• I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.
• No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
• 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…
• My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
• We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
• 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…
• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
• You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
• 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 to…
• A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
• I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
• I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge…
• Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

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