Alice Roosevelt Longworth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Witty #Nice #Humorous
Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Funny #Men #Hair
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Life #Inspiring #Philosophy
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Secret #Development #Belief
My specialty is detached malevolence.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Malevolence #Specialty
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Country #Government #Roots
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Successful #Men #Towns
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
[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
You can't make souffle rise twice.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Souffle
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist â€¦ Well, a show-off anyway.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Independence #Age #Wells
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
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Say Anything
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#President #United States #States
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Memorable #Looks #Pickles
I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Luck
You can't make a souffle rise twice.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Souffle

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