I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing..

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..

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

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….

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint..

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….

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

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….