'Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,' said the young lord, plucking another daisy.
Hallward shook his head. 'You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, ' he murmured - 'or what enmity is, for that matter. You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.'
'How horribly unjust of you!' cried Lord Henry, tilting his head back, and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky. 'Yes; horribly unjust of you. I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for my 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.'