Apartment Quote by Elsie de Wolfe

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

Elsie de Wolfe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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It is not chic to be too chic.

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

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Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience,…

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