Top 25 Quotes by Elsie de Wolfe of 37 - Page 2

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

Song, Men, Healthy

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

Art, Mean, Giving

Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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

Elsie de Wolfe

Food, Lakes, Cooking

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

Elsie de Wolfe

Believe, Lakes, Meals

Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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

Writing, Design, Style

This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

Elsie de Wolfe

Sorry, Believe, Home

Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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