It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  • -- Noël Coward 不,懦夫

令人沮丧的是,有那么多人对诚实感到吃惊,而对欺骗感到吃惊的人却那么的少。

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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

我不是一个好父亲,他们也不再是孩子了;老大五十多岁了。我与他们母亲的关系破裂了,因为律法的缘故,他们与母亲同去,在生活中充满了母亲的道德,他们就不再是我的子民了。

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

把一个既不能定义也不能设想的概念作为公共道德的标准,就等于打开了每一种暴政的大门。

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

没有人说到做到,但很少有人说到做到,因为语言是滑的,思想是粘滞的。

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.

欺骗来得快,诚实能等到适当的时候。