Alice Rooseveltová Longworthová citáty

Alice Roosevelt Longworth byla americká spisovatelka, dcera Theodora Roosevelta.

✵ 12. únor 1884 – 20. únor 1980
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„Harding nebyl špatný člověk. Byl jen lajdák.“

[(en) Harding was not a bad man. He was just a slob.]
Zdroj: [Payne, Phillip G., Dead last: the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy, Ohio University Press, 2009, 978-0-82141-819-2, 94, anglicky]

Alice Rooseveltová Longworthová: Citáty anglicky

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

As quoted in TIME (9 December 1966) - photograph of her with a pillow bearing the quotation http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2007-12-12-roosevelt_N.htm
Variants:
If you haven't anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
If you haven't something good to say about someone sit right here by me.

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

As quoted in The Best (1974), edited by Peter Passell and Leonard Ross.

“The little man on the wedding cake.”

Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.

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

As quoted in "The Doyenne of the Drawing Room" in The New York Times (23 August 1981) http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/books/the-doyenne-of-the-drawing-room.html?sec=&pagewanted=all.

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

On Calvin Coolidge, as quoted in The Washington Post (21 October 1924).

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

As quoted in Alice, The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1979) by Howard Teichmann, p. 237.

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