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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I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

我不想每周都写,那太麻烦了,我只在我想写的时候才写。如果我不写信时你认为我病了,你可以叫我来告诉你。

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.

求爱时的奉承是最无礼的,因为它假装给你的东西比你应得的多,其实是在伺机夺走你真正拥有的东西。

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way.

最幸福的人不一定拥有最好的一切;他们只是充分利用每一件事情。

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

很少有人能证明自己不会受到全神贯注的奉承。

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

宝座只不过是一条铺着天鹅绒的长凳。