Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#2. My specialty is detached malevolence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#9. [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.

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

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

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#12. You can't make souffle rise twice.

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#13. I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

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#14. You can't make a souffle rise twice.

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

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

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#17. He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

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#18. [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.

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#19. Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth