Howard Hughes Quotes

130 Howard Hughes Quotes

1 2 3 4



[On being asked why he vanished for a month] Oh, I’ve been travelling.
Howard Hughes

[On Irvings fake autobiography] Totally fantastic fiction. I don’t remember any script I ever saw in Hollywood as wild or imagination stretching as this!
Howard Hughes

Harry, I think I see land ahead. What is it? [Ireland]
Howard Hughes

A wife’s a pain in the ass, but I always find it convenient to have one stashed away somewhere.
Howard Hughes

Ginger’s left me!
Howard Hughes

For the first time in my life I felt like a man in my own right – not a boy living in my father’s shadow.
Howard Hughes

‘Dates’ are for business purposes only.
Howard Hughes

Get out! Get out of my house. I never want to see you again. I loathe you. You’re nothing but a cud-chewing Texas cow!
Howard Hughes

I don’t lend money.
Howard Hughes

Money is the easiest way to buy our way out of this. That is if Black Thursday left me with any cash at all.
Howard Hughes



You’re worth it. To have you, I’d meet with the Devil himself.
Howard Hughes

You could have been swept overboard. It took that swell to teach me how much I love you. Without you, I would die. I’ll never leave you.
Howard Hughes

There’s a limit to how far I’ll be pushed.
Howard Hughes

Goddamn, I can’t make up my mind.
Howard Hughes

It has suddenly come to my attention that I am being treated unfairly by the War Department, by the executives of the Hughes Tool Company in Houston, by Ava Gardner, by Faith Domergue and by Noah Dietrich. Therefore, as a final gesture to them, I choose to grant each of them a final bequest of one U.S. dollar.
Howard Hughes

I never repeat myself.
Howard Hughes

No more slutty Hollywood actresses for me.
Howard Hughes

[On getting out of hospital after a plane crash] Noah, get me something to wear so I can cover up my balls and get the hell out of this joint.
Howard Hughes

I’d like to meet a girl who has never even kissed a boy. That way, I can teach her to kiss like I like it.
Howard Hughes

You’ll be hearing from me, kiddo.
Howard Hughes



I hope the flight will further international cooperation and friendship.
Howard Hughes

I’m a Texas gentleman. A man of my word.
Howard Hughes

You’re married to a god damn, f*cking off-the-wall madman.
Howard Hughes

I can summarize my attitude about employing more Negroes very simply. I think it’s a wonderful idea for somebody else, somewhere else. I know this is not a very praiseworthy point of view, but I feel that Negroes have already made enough progress in the last century, and there is such a thing as overdoing it.
Howard Hughes

I’m forced to lend you out to other studios, because I have nothing for you now. Any more movies I produce will call for a real actress. You can’t act and you can’t be directed, you’re nothing but a one-dimensional vamp. You can wear low–cut gowns, seduce men, smoke and drink – that’s it.
Howard Hughes

I’ll have to wait and play my hand again when the right time comes.
Howard Hughes

Future historians of Howard Hughes will record that only two big stars in Hollywood turned me down – namely Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor.
Howard Hughes

Turn this sweet ass prop into the fastest plane on earth.
Howard Hughes

I thought somewhere over the Atlantic, long before I reached Europe, that plan would pancake into the ocean. But I would not turn back. I would not turn back!
Howard Hughes

I hope we can get to Paris before we run out of Gas. But I’m not so sure. All I can do is hope that we will get there. I hope that we have enough gas to reach land. I am throttling back the engines as fast as the reducing load permits.
Howard Hughes



We had a good flight.
Howard Hughes

We’ll see the coast of France before you do. The Irish coast is breathtaking in it’s beauty. Will contact you from Paris.
Howard Hughes

We’ll be airborne in an hour!
Howard Hughes

Precious time is wasting. Let’s show these frogs what American ingenuity means.
Howard Hughes

[After clearing German airspace] Now we can breathe again.
Howard Hughes

I’m about to storm the rarefied world of the Vanderbilts.
Howard Hughes

The Jap’s have made a terrible mistake. In attacking Pearl Harbour, they hadn’t reckoned with Howard Hughes.
Howard Hughes

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I’m the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.
Howard Hughes

I defy anyone today to design an airplane substantially more efficient than this one for its purpose.
Howard Hughes

What does it take to stall this thing? That’s something our pilot’s must know.
Howard Hughes



1 2 3 4


Return from Howard Hughes Quotes to Quoteswise.com