O. Henry

Quotes by O. Henry

69 quotes found

Writer · American · 1862–1910

American writer (1862–1910)

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“I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to mak...”
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“Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”
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“It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.”
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“Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.”
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“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.”
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“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”
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“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in ...”
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“She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).”
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“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