A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
– O. Henry
Again I repaired to the park and sat in the moon shade. I thought and thought, and wondered why none could tell me what I asked for.
– 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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
– O. Henry
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
– 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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
– O. Henry
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
– O. Henry
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
– O. Henry
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
– 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
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
– 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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
– O. Henry
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
– 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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
– O. Henry
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
– O. Henry
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
– O. Henry
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
– O. Henry
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.