Alice Roosevelt Longworth quotes
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“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
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“Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.”
-- Alice Roosevelt LongworthSource : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books
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“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
-- Alice Roosevelt LongworthSource : Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)
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“I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”
-- Alice Roosevelt LongworthSource : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books
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“My specialty is detached malevolence.”
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“He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.”
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“[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.”
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“People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.”
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“[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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“You can't make souffle rise twice.”
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“I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.”
-- Alice Roosevelt LongworthSource : "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.
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“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
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“If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”
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“I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”
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“He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.”
-- Alice Roosevelt LongworthSource : The Washington Post, October 21, 1924.
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“I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.”
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“If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.”
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“You can't make a souffle rise twice.”
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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