“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“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 want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”

“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”

“I must remember that a good friend is a new world.”

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”