I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

我认为为竞争对手找个丈夫是有辱人格的。如果你失败了,那是耻辱;如果你成功了,那是平庸。

相关名言

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

我想要反对的是,我认为当时不是很成熟,但现在已经完全成熟了,它取代了一个真正意义上的扭曲的国家,你可以把它卖给那些被称为“遗产”的人。

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

我做过很多零工,但我想我可能会成为一名消防员,因为你可以看到你工作的结果。你到了那里,发现一所房子着火了。你走了,再也没有火了。

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

当一个人没有成功,或者为自己的成功感到羞愧时,悲伤通常是由以下原因之一引起的。

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

奇怪的是,我们花更多的时间祝贺那些成功的人,而不是鼓励那些没有成功的人。