Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRYWhen a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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