Nimicuri fabuloase

In original are un farmec pe care orice traducere il pierde:

He knew that the senses, no less then the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.

Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don’t blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.

Ca sa nu mai vorbim de farmecul formulelor de politete din perioada victoriana:

-Let me come in for a moment. I have something to say to you.

-I shall be charmed.