For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

  • -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan 理查德·布林斯利·谢里丹

因为,如果一个人有什么值得称赞的地方,满足于此是愚蠢的虚荣心;如果这是滥用——为什么一个人总能从一个该死的好心肠的朋友那里听到这些呢?

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So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

所以你不断提高这些税收,突然间,商界说,‘我们为什么在这里?我们可以去别的地方用他们的手机。这是直接影响商界的问题之一。

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

现在名声和耻辱没有区别了。现在有一群不做任何事的专业名人。他们不创造任何东西。

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

当我们一个人在考虑朋友对我们意味着什么时,我们很有可能完全忽略了她是什么。

A true friend is someone who never gets tired of listening to your pointless dramas over and over again.

真正的朋友是那种永远不会厌倦听你一遍又一遍毫无意义的戏剧的人。

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

如果我告诉别人我知道我在做什么,没有人会相信我,所以为什么还要假装呢?

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

如果一个人不忠于自己的个性,他就不能忠于任何东西。