The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Winter is the time for comfort for good food and warmth for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire it is the time for home.

When we think of cruelty we must try to remember the stupidity the envy the frustration from which it has arisen.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.