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. – O. Henry
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving! – O. Henry
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). – O. Henry
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. – O. Henry
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. Henry
It is said that love makes the world go ’round – the announcement lacks verification. It’s wind from the dinner horn that does it. – O. Henry
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. – O. Henry
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212. – O. Henry
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune. – O. Henry
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. – O. Henry
