If the biographer is hostile to his subject, the slaughtering may be an exciting spectacle; if he wishes, not to lay a victim out, but to pay a tribute of admiration tempered by criticism, he has to run the risk of offending the man he admires, and all those whose admiration is in the nature of blind hero-worship.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
A future biographer may have at his hands what the present lacks; but I for my part have no other ambition for this book than that it should be a running account of Maeterlinck's works, with some suggestions as to their interpretation and value.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
No biographer with his pen sets every straw to show the winds of character and circumstance more deliberately than does this historian with his brush.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue