Quotes By O. Henry

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

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

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

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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

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

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

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Turn up the lights. 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.

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

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

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

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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