O. Henry

Quotes

• “I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with th...”
• “All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would f...”
• “You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor O...”
• “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...”
• “Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt thre...”
• “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 occasi...”
• “And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even ob...”
• “She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”
• “Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”
• “If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.”
• “There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”
• “To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.”
• “Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
• “If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.”
• “If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
• “Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”
• “Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
• “Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”
• “Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.”
• “It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.”
• “Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.”
• “He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.”
• “Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
• “We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”
• “It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.”
• “No friendship is an accident.”