31 Quotes by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[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.

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

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

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

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

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

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

... [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.

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