Best 14 quotes of Alice Roosevelt Longworth on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

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

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

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

[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.

... [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.