O. Henry
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 September 1862
CityGreensboro, NC
CountryUnited States of America
men hands way
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.
christmas wise art
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
time art burglars
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
baseball running moving
[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.
art village lows
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
air
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
liars fall hypocrite
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
grief grieving differences
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.
truth honesty lines
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.
appreciation home old-glory
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
art food family-love
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
new-york insulting ifs
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
marriage men ifs
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
weather may climate
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.