Quotes by Frank Harris

About Frank Harris:

Frank Harris is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.
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All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

Frank Harris

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

Frank Harris

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Frank Harris

I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and pe...

Frank Harris

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page...

Frank Harris

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

Frank Harris

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Frank Harris

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

Frank Harris

Sex is the gateway to life.

Frank Harris

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of ou...

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Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

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

Frank Harris

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

Frank Harris

Author Bio

  • NameFrank Harris
  • DescriptionIrish journalist and rogue
  • AliasesJames Thomas Harris
  • BornFebruary 14, 1856
  • DiedAugust 27, 1931
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Ireland; United States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Publisher; Journalist