Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
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.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
You can't make a souffle rise twice.
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.
I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
[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.
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
... [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.
If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me.