O. Henry Professions : Writer Born : September 11, 1862 Died : June 5, 1910 Browse All Authors Top 103 quotes by O. Henry There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. O. Henry thanksgiving self home 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? O. Henry jersey ocean sides He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather. O. Henry sunshine weather blood He studied cities as women study their reflections. O. Henry study cities reflection East is East, and West is San Francisco O. Henry san-francisco east west 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. O. Henry eye comfort men If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing. O. Henry new-york feet trying Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady. O. Henry rudeness rude should In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness. O. Henry greatness gentleman new-york History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. O. Henry men dull fiction 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? O. Henry ocean new-york wise It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it. O. Henry sunshine ambition food 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. O. Henry soup stories faces A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. O. Henry political air blow 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. O. Henry glasses beer home Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry family-love food art O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. O. Henry giving-and-receiving wisest giving But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws. O. Henry light home men [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench. O. Henry baseball running moving 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. O. Henry differences grief grieving Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
