89 O. Henry Quotes For Passionate Readers
William Sydney Porter, famous as O. Henry, was a prolific American short story writer. His stories and writings are known for their surprise endings. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, he was an avid reader and spent his major time reading, everything from dime novels to classics. Some of his famous collections include ‘The Four Millions,’ ‘Heart of The West,’ ‘Cabbages and Kings,’ ‘The Trimmed Lamp,’ ‘Roads of Destiny,’ ‘The Gentle Grafter,’ ‘Options,’ and ‘The Voice of The City,’ amongst various others. Here is a collection of quotes and sayings by O. Henry which have been curated from his writings, stories, thoughts, poems, etc. Read through the compilation of notable and quotable quotes and thoughts by O. Henry on service, lights, unknown, achieve, environmental, smiles, farmer, happy, old-days, women, children, funny, nature, royal, American, business, fortune etc.
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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.
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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.
There 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 all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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?
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
Women's weapon, water-drops.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
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.
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
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.
East is East, and West is San Francisco
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
