Hair cut Quote 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…

— 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…

— Richard Hughes

“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.”

— Richard Hughes

“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Hughes

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Hughes

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Hughes