It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

  • -- William Whitelaw 威廉·怀特劳

试图表现得比你聪明从来都不是明智的。有些时候,明智的做法是表现得不那么明显。

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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

我永远不会忘记,有一天早上,我走进去时,身上青肿得很厉害——头天晚上很难受——一个客户对我说,‘天哪,维达尔,你的脸怎么了?我说,“哦,没什么,夫人,我只是被一个发夹绊倒了。”

Never forget your friends when you're in a relationship.

恋爱时,永远不要忘记你的朋友。