O. Henry Quotes
1862–1910 United States
O. Henry (11 September 1862 – 5 June 1910) was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, a short-story writer famous for his use of twist endings.
- United States
- Novelists
- Short story writers
Also known as: Henry, O.
40 quotes
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.
Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: O. Henry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.