“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain.”

“I can sympathise with everything, except suffering", cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.”

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

“I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.”