Harold Acton
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar and dilettante who is probably most famous for being believed, incorrectly, to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945).
“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