O. Henry's Quotes

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

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

O. Henry

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

O. Henry

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

O. Henry