Frank Harris Quotes

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My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.

Frank Harris
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.

Frank Harris
Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.

Frank Harris
Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.

Frank Harris
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

Frank Harris
All that is amiable and sweet and good in life, all that ennobles and chastens, I have won from women.

Frank Harris
Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.

Frank Harris
Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!

Frank Harris
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.

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There is a subtle compensation in everything, and the cheapening of books, the vulgarization of knowledge, has a great deal to answer for. We have forgotten how to use books, and they revenge themselves on us.

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"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes."

Frank Harris
Stupidity and malevolence are the twin rulers of human destiny and there is no hope for the future save in the soul of man, and even there high purpose is fitful and often dwarfed by animal necessities.

Frank Harris