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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.


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



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



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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.



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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.



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

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



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

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



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 may grow to understand.

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 may grow to understand.



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



[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!



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





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This page presents the quote "The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.". Author of this quote is Elsie de Wolfe. This quote is about cardinals, design, virtue, restraint, beauty,.