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

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

每个人都喜欢阿谀奉承;当你来到皇室,你应该用铲子把它抹上。

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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

除了让男人知道他们说真话不会冒犯你,别无他法使自己免受奉承;但是当每个人都能告诉你真相时,你就失去了他们的尊重。

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

艺术家是情感的容器,情感来自四面八方:来自天空,来自大地,来自一张纸片,来自一个路过的形状,来自一张蜘蛛网。

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

人们可以把奉承定义为一种基本的友谊,这对拍马屁者来说是最有利的。

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

如果有必要的话,我就去导演戏剧,聊聊天直到牛回来。

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

他在玫瑰花坛的荆棘丛中忏悔。

I am the State.

我就是国家。