When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRYIf man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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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.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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