Quotes from O. Henry

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

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

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

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.

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

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 foreign town.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

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.

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

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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.

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

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.

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

Women's weapon, water-drops.

Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks.It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends—never easy.

Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered she went on with a sudden serious sweetness but nobody could ever count my love for you.

Will you buy my hair?