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 imagination.

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.

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.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

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

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.