--- title: "1 Like Frog Quotes By Richard Hughes" description: "1 Like Frog quotes by Richard Hughes. Plus more from Richard Hughes and more Like Frog sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eba/richard-hughes-34704_quote_laura-lay-on-her-back-in-the-faint-light_1458039.jpg" --- > [“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which did duty for a night-gown was rucked right up under her arms. Jonsen wondered how anything so like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/laura-lay-on-her-back-in-the-faint-light-of-the-open-hatch-she-had/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eba/richard-hughes-34704_quote_laura-lay-on-her-back-in-the-faint-light_1458039.jpg) ## More by Richard Hughes > [“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/you-can-never-count-on-them-they-say-what-they-think-you-want-them-to/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/being-nearly-four-years-old-she-was-certainly-a-child-and-children/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/life-seemed-suddenly-a-little-empty-for-never-again-could-there/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/the-punctilious-magistrate-presiding-in-his-bivouac-of-matting/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which did duty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/laura-lay-on-her-back-in-the-faint-light-of-the-open-hatch-she-had/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/since-landscape-changes-like-this-from-country-to-country-it-must-owe/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/middle-age-snuffs-out-more-talent-than-ever-wars-or-sudden-deaths-do/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/it-would-have-surprised-mrs-thornton-very-much-to-have-been-told-that/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/mathias-shrugged-after-all-a-criminal-lawyer-is-not-concerned-with/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“Emily and Rachel had their hair cut short, and were allowed to do everything the boys did - to climb trees, swim, and trap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/emily-and-rachel-had-their-hair-cut-short-and-were-allowed-to-do/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/all-that-non-fiction-can-do-is-answer-questions-it-s-fiction-s/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/it-is-a-fact-that-it-takes-experience-before-one-can-realize-what-is/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/a-method-involving-apparent-obscurity-is-surely-justified-when-it-is/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) > [Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hughes/do-your-bit-to-save-humanity-from-lapsing-back-into-barbarity-by/) [Richard Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hughes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-frog/richard-hughes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Like Frog Quotes By Richard Hughes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. 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