Frank Harris

“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a…

— Frank Harris

“For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to…

— Frank Harris

“(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.”

— Frank Harris

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

— Frank Harris

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

— Frank Harris

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

— Frank Harris

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

“Orang-orang kuat ditempa oleh pelbagai tantangan, seperti layang-layang yang dilambungkan ke langit oleh terpaan angin.”

— Frank Harris

“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental…

— Frank Harris

“I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent…

— Frank Harris

“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each…

— Frank Harris

Sex is the gateway to life.

— Frank Harris

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage…

— Frank Harris

“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins…

— Frank Harris

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

— Frank Harris

“The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.”

— Frank Harris

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher…

— Frank Harris

“(...) the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.”

— Frank Harris