Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

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.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

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.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?