Frank Harris

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

"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…"

"... truth was a mortal enemy of beauty."

"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 lu…"

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

"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."

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

"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 t…"