Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Hughes

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Last updated on April 18, 2025.

Rupert Raleigh Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing Washington and was well received by historians. A staunch anti-Communist, in the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers Association, a group of anti-Communist writers.

American - Novelist | January 31, 1872 - September 9, 1956

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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

Rupert Hughes

As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

Rupert Hughes

Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

Rupert Hughes

Her face was her chaperone.

Rupert Hughes

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

Rupert Hughes

The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory.

Rupert Hughes

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

Rupert Hughes

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Hughes

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