“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”

“Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

“Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;”