Quotes by Harold Acton

"So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it."
Harold Acton
"Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions."
Harold Acton
Harold Acton

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, his...