Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes

• If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Witty, Nice

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• My specialty is detached malevolence.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Malevolence, Specialty, Detached

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• I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Secret, Development, Belief

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Fathers Day, Wedding, Baby

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Country, Government, Roots

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• If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Humor, Say Anything

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• I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  President, United States, I Can

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• He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Memorable, Looks, Pickles

  The Washington Post, October 21, 1924.

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• I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Tired, Sleep, Scratches

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• Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Men, Hair

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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• I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Independence, Age, Shows

  "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.

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• People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  People, Lines, Hens

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• ... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Men, Differences, Numbers

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1935). “Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth”

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• [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Successful, Men, Towns

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• [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Wish, Looks, Pickles

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• You can't make a souffle rise twice.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Souffle

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• You can't make souffle rise twice.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Souffle

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• If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Nice, Magnolias, Social Graces

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• If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Luck, Ifs

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• If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Nice, Thinking, Ifs

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• If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Nice, Next, Ifs

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