Top 17 Nancy Lancaster Quotes
#2. Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.
Nancy Lancaster
#3. I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.
Troy Duffy
#4. If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.
Nancy Lancaster
#5. How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).
Nancy Lancaster
#6. Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
Nancy Lancaster
#7. In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.
Nancy Lancaster
#8. I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.
Anna Torv
#9. A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).
Nancy Lancaster
#10. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#11. It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own ... style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.
Nancy Lancaster
#12. I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.
Nancy Lancaster
#13. I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
Muhammad Ali
#14. Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin
#15. Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
Nancy Lancaster
#16. When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Bertolt Brecht
#17. In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
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