"For people who like this sort of thing...

[twickster]

… this is the sort of thing they like."

Who said it first, and of what? Googling the quote gives me multiple uses, no attribution.

[Miss_Mapp]

I first heard it in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, spoken by Miss Brodie. She was referring dismissively to the Girl Guides (Scouts), which one of her students was a member of.

[KneadToKnow]

Wikiquote.org gives the original as

Well, for people that like that sort of thing, I think it is just about the sort of thing they would like.

and adds:

Attributed to “an American President” in Ármin Vámbéry (1884), All the Year Round. It more likely originates in a spoof testimonial that Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) wrote in an advertisement in 1863:

I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like.

Yours respectfully,
O. Abe

[twickster]

@KneadToKnow

Wikiquote.org gives the original as
and adds:

Great, thanks. That explains the Lincoln attribution I noticed, which seemed screwy to me. (I’d’ve guessed Dorothy Parker.)

[Sam_A.Robrin]

I don’t know if Lincoln said that, but Eisenhower is supposed to have said “Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.”…