Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRYThere is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
More O. Henry Quotes
-
-
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HENRY -
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY -
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. HENRY -
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRY -
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY -
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY -
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY -
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?
O. HENRY -
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRY -
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRY -
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. HENRY -
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY -
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.
O. HENRY -
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY -
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRY -
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY -
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
O. HENRY -
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY -
No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY -
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY -
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
O. HENRY -
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRY -
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRY -
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. HENRY -
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
O. HENRY