Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes

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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

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

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
The truckman, the trashman and the policeman on the block may call me Alice but you may not.
To Senator Joseph McCarthy

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Harding was not a bad man. He was just a slob.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I do wish [Calvin Coolidge] did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
Variant: Calvin Coolidge looked as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Variant: If you haven't got anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.

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
Of Thomas E. Dewey:
Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth