O. Henry Quotes

Jeff is in the line of unillegal graft. He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.

little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the implacable carpenter, Fate.

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

Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far.

There was a sylvan attitude of somnolent sleepiness pervading that section of the external outward surface of Alabama that lay exposed to my view.

When the hour comes it is to remind him of a story. Synopsis: A French girl says to her suitor: “Did you ask my father for my hand at nine o’clock this morning, as you said you would?” “I did not,” he. replies. “At nine o’clock I was fighting a duel with swords in the Bois de Boulogne.” “Coward!” she hisses.

it shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.

"In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places.

"action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: "Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward — or rather laterally — in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet," and "Now, returning — or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit" — I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination."

But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice.

He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could sit.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

We would call no one a lobster without good and sufficient claws.

In the big city the twin spirits Romance and Adventure are always abroad seeking worthy wooers.

Cái cô đơn nhất trong khắp thế gian là một tâm hồn đang chuẩn bị sẵn sàng cho chuyến đi xa xôi, bí ẩn của mình.