Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
O. HENRYYou 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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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