The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  • -- J. B. Priestley 普里斯特利

我拥有的最持久的名声是近乎凶猛的攻击性,而实际上我是一个和蔼可亲、宽容、多情、害羞和内心相当胆怯的人。

相关名言

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

作家写作是为了影响他们的读者,他们的牧师,他们的听众,但在本质上,总是为了做更多的自己。

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

移动的手指写字,写字的人继续写。你的全部虔诚和你的全部智慧,也不能抵消它的一半。