Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

  • -- William Congreve 康格里夫

求偶之于婚姻,犹如一出枯燥乏味的戏剧的诙谐开场白。

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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

求爱时的奉承是最无礼的,因为它假装给你的东西比你应得的多,其实是在伺机夺走你真正拥有的东西。

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

我们当中有谁在后代降临之前就已经足够成熟到可以繁衍后代了?婚姻的价值不在于成人生孩子,而在于孩子生成人。

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

政治上的同床异梦从来都不奇怪。只有那些没有看过求爱过程的人才会这么认为。

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

基本上我的妻子是不成熟的。我在家里洗澡,她进来把我的船弄沉。