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Frank Harris
11 quotes
“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 6, p. 59.
“Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1856–1931) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1856–1931) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1856–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) pp. 100-101.
“Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 164.
“Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1856–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952) p. 252.
“... truth was a mortal enemy of beauty.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frank Harris: "My Life & Loves" (1925) p. 243
“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 (1856–1931) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oscar Wilde, letter to More Adey, May 12, 1897, quoted in Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 102.
“The pleasure of being with you is in the clash of personality, the intellectual battle, the war of ideas. To survive you one must have a strong brain, an assertive ego, a dynamic character. In your luncheon-parties, in old days, the remains of the guests were taken away with the débris of the feast. I have often lunched with you in Park Lane and found myself the only survivor.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oscar Wilde, letter to Frank Harris, June 13, 1897, in The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962) p. 608.