30 Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

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.

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- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

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

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.