O. Henry Quotes - Page 4

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

What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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

East is East, and West is San Francisco

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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.

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

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.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.