A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYExcept in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
O. HENRYTurn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYWhen a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRYIt ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRYWhat is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRYPerhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRYThere is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. HENRYThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRYA 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.
O. HENRYA straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRYO all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HENRYShe had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRYIf man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. HENRY