O. Henry Quotes

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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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.

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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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