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

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..

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint..

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous..

It is not chic to be too chic..

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

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….

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there..

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

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

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagin….

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

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not..

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

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories..

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

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

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint..

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