1.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
'If you don't have words of praise for anyone else, take a seat beside me.'
2.
If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
3.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
4.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
5.
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
6.
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
7.
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
8.
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
9.
Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
10.
I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
11.
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
12.
You can't make a souffle rise twice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
13.
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
14.
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
15.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
16.
I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
18.
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
19.
[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
20.
... [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
21.
If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
22.
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
23.
If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
