Harry's Disappointment

Hallward: 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. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? Oh, I think it is rather vain. Yes, horribly unjust of you. Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent leather boot with a tasseled ebony cane. "I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call the vices of the upper orders," he said.

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