Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

奉承是一种坏钱,我们的虚荣心给了我们钱。

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I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

我认为当你演喜剧时,你要遵循一套不同的规则。没有人真的想让你保持良好的状态。保持良好的体型意味着一定程度的虚荣心,而这种虚荣心并不一定是有趣的。

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

虚荣在冷漠下感到不安,正如温柔在无法回报的爱情下感到不安一样。

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

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。

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

奉承使接受者和给予者都堕落。