List of O. Henry Quotes

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 All Who Give And Receive Gifts, Such As They Are Wisest. Everywhere They Are Wisest. They Are The Magi.

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.

Whenever My Patient Begins To Count The Carriages In Her Funeral Procession I Subtract 50 Per Cent From The Curative Power Of Medicines.

Not Very Long Ago Some One Invented The Assertion That There Were Only "four Hundred" People In New York City Who Were Really Worth Noticing. But A Wiser Man Has Arisen - The Census Taker - And His Larger Estimate Of Human Interest Has Been Preferred In Marking Out The Field Of These Little Stories Of The "four Million.

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.

By Rights You're A King. If I Was You, I'd Call For A New Deal.

Except In Streetcars One Should Never Be Unnecessarily Rude To A Lady.

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?

East Is East, And West Is San Francisco

If There Was Ever An Aviary Overstocked With Jays It Is That Yaptouwn On The Hudson Called New York

Broadway - The Great Sluice That Washes Out The Dust Of The Gold-mines Of Gotham.