Quotes by O. Henry

“Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.”

“It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.”

“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.”

“She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

“If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.”

“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.”

“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 Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in...”

“Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.”

“Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”

“No friendship is an accident.”

“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.”

“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.”

“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. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wi...”

“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold gray fog that came and kissed the lips of the three thousand, and then delivered them to the cro...”

“Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.”

“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.”

“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 Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a ...”

“Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”