Top 31 Alice Longworth Quotes

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #25364
#2. My specialty is detached malevolence.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #25535
#3. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Katharine Graham

Alice Longworth Quotes #172525
#4. If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #191407
#5. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Claudy Conn

Alice Longworth Quotes #217982
#6. That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.

Rosemary Sutcliff

Alice Longworth Quotes #471346
#7. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #528834
#8. I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Kathryn Bigelow

Alice Longworth Quotes #534991
#9. If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #576165
#10. You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.

Walter Schloss

Alice Longworth Quotes #577828
#11. [On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #799213
#12. I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #938111
#13. If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #961631
#14. [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

Alice Longworth Quotes #1067488
#15. I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

Katharine Graham

Alice Longworth Quotes #1116240
#16. The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

Paulo Coelho

Alice Longworth Quotes #1138768
#17. I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1284601
#18. He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1307081
#19. Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!!

Jim Dooley

Alice Longworth Quotes #1359266
#20. You can't make souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1363398
#21. Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

N. T. Wright

Alice Longworth Quotes #1366451
#22. I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1374013
#23. There are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.

Nicholas Sparks

Alice Longworth Quotes #1386170
#24. You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1434410
#25. I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1443698
#26. I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1527006
#27. He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1577480
#28. [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

Alice Longworth Quotes #1659912
#29. Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1741410
#30. Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Mark Strand

Alice Longworth Quotes #1816439
#31. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Longworth Quotes #1819039

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