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Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was an American writer and prominent socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican Party leader and 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah.

American - Author | February 12, 1884 - February 20, 1980

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. — © Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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 Roosevelt Longworth

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My specialty is detached malevolence. — © Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[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 Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

... [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 Roosevelt Longworth

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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