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O Henry Quotes

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady  (O Henry Quotes) History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women  (O Henry Quotes) Busy as a one armed man with the nettle rash pasting on wallpaper  (O Henry Quotes) It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are  (O Henry Quotes) Take it from me - he's got the goods  (O Henry Quotes) A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else  (O Henry Quotes) Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's  (O Henry Quotes) One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas  (O Henry Quotes) The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate  (O Henry Quotes) By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal  (O Henry Quotes) If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry  (O Henry Quotes) Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence  (O Henry Quotes) A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows  (O Henry Quotes) It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York  (O Henry Quotes) It'll be a great place if they ever finish it  (O Henry Quotes) When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard  (O Henry Quotes) Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark  (O Henry Quotes) We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us  (O Henry Quotes) 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  (O Henry Quotes) 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  (O Henry Quotes) For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the worst we wicked ones may expect is a chemical reaction  (O Henry Quotes) I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet  (O Henry Quotes) Scattered upon the flimsy dresser scarf were half a dozen hairpins - those discreet, indistinguishable friends of womankind, feminine of gender, infinite of mood and uncommunicative of tense  (O Henry Quotes) What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?  (O Henry Quotes) There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war  (O Henry Quotes) In the big city a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out  (O Henry Quotes) And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part  (O Henry Quotes) In the consultation of this small, maritime banana republic was a forgotten section that provided for the maintenance of a navy  (O Henry Quotes) In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness  (O Henry Quotes) She is pale but affectionate, clinging to his arm - always clinging to his arm. Any one can see that she is a peach and of the cling variety  (O Henry Quotes)
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