English scholar and author (d. 1994), Birth: 5-7-1904
1.
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
2.
Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
Harold Acton
3.
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
