Harold Acton Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
July 5, 1904 – February, 27, 1994.

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete. He wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.

Also known as Historian

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.

Harold Acton
- Time
- Best
- Test
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
- Real
- Say
- Regrets

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Harold Acton
- People
- Exercise
- Jumping