Quotes of O. Henry - somelinesforyou

“ Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving! ”

- O. Henry

“ It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ”

- O. Henry

“ 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

“ 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

“ It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ”

- O. Henry

“ She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ”

- O. Henry

“ The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. ”

- O. Henry

“ The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. ”

- O. Henry

“ The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. ”

- O. Henry

“ One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ”

- O. Henry

“ If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. ”

- O. Henry

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ 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

“ One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ”

- O. Henry

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ”

- O. Henry

“ A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. ”

- O. Henry

“ 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

“ 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

“ It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. ”

- O. Henry

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ There she plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ”

- O. Henry

“ Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ”

- O. Henry

“ You can't appreciate home until 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. ”

- O. Henry

“ She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ”

- O. Henry
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