30 Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe

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

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

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

It is not chic to be too chic.

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

No, I don’t take soup. You can’t build a meal on a lake.

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.

Light, air and comfort – these three things I must always have in a room...

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