Frank Harris Quotes
February 14, 1856 – August 27, 1931
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Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.
Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 164. 
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More Frank Harris Quotes
Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.
Frank Harris— Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 6, p. 59.
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Frank Harris— Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 21, p. 254.
"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— Oscar Wilde (1916) ch. 11
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— Bernard Shaw (1931) p. 191.
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— Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) pp. 100-101.
Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!
Frank Harris— A. I. Tobin and Elmer Gertz Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931) p. 324.
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
Frank Harris— Quoted in George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952) p. 252.
Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.
Frank Harris— Oscar Wilde, letter to More Adey, May 12, 1897, quoted in Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 102.
