Sidney Lee Quotes

Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer, writer, and critic.

✵ 5. December 1859 – 3. March 1926
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Famous Sidney Lee Quotes

“Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart”

Dictionary of National Biography, art. "William Shakespeare"

“He had a splendid appetite at all times, and never toyed with his food”

Of King Edward VII; "King Edward VII: a Biography", vol.2 (1927) p. 408

“Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.”

"Principles of Biography", 1911

“I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.”

"The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art" (English Association Leaflet, 13, July 1909)

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