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

- Elsie De Wolfe

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

- Elsie De Wolfe

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

- Elsie De Wolfe

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

- 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

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…

- Elsie De Wolfe

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

- Elsie De Wolfe

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

- Elsie De Wolfe

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

- Elsie De Wolfe