Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes & Sayings

[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

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

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

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

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

My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

You can't make a souffle rise twice. — 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

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You can't make souffle rise twice. — 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

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

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth