Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe

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.

Grief

Mistress

Sorrow

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Party

Tongue

Witty

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

Eating

Good Health

Long

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

Accessories

Details

Interior Design

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 wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

Art

Giving

Mean

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

Believe

Optimism

White

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

Believe

Optimism

White

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.

Light

Running

Writing

I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will – awakening, development, American Renaissance – it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

Country

House

Men

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue – simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

Hands

Simplicity

Writing

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Accessories

Art

Believe

Chairs

Cooking

Country

Design

Details

Eating

Food

Furniture

Giving

Goal

Good Health

Grief

Growing

Hands

Happiness

Home

House

Imagination

Imitation

Interior Design

Joy

Lakes

Light

Long

Made

Mean

Men

Mistress

Numbers

Optimism

Party

Pockets

Running

Should

Simplicity

Sorrow

Sorry

Style

Tongue

Want

White

Witty

Worthwhile

Writing

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Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe

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.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

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.

I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will – awakening, development, American Renaissance – it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue – simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

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