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.

— Elsie De Wolfe

Elsie De Wolfe Quotes

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.

— Elsie De Wolfe

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

— Elsie De Wolfe

Simplicity

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

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.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

— Elsie De Wolfe

It is not chic to be too chic.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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.

— Elsie De Wolfe

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

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 was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

— Elsie De Wolfe

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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 of grammar.

— Elsie De Wolfe

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

— Elsie De Wolfe

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

— Elsie De Wolfe

No one chair should be isolated...

— Elsie De Wolfe

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