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”

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Dictionary of National Biography, art. "William Shakespeare"

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

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

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

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"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.”

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

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