Elsie De Wolfe Quotes

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

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

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.

I’m 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,” said the mother of modern style, Elsie de Wolfe,

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

Among her female friends, lesbians were particularly prominent: her closest friends in New York were Elsie de Wolfe and her partner, the theatrical agent Bessie Marbury, as well as Anne Morgan and her lover Ann Harriman Vanderbilt, and in Paris she was friendly with the lesbian novelist Natalie Barney and her circle. Lucy admired these independent, forthright women, and according to Randy Bryan Bigham, “a sexual ambiguity on Lucy’s part is possible.