Quotes by O. Henry

It couldnt have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I dont want to go home in the dark.

Itll be a great place if they ever finish it.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

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

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.

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 cant appreciate home until youve left it money till its spent your wife till shes joined a womans club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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 mans starving!

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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

Turn up the lights. I dont want to go home in the dark.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, theyd never marry.

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

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.