O. Henry

Date of Birth:

11-Sep-1862

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Story writer

William Sydney Porter, famous as O. Henry, was a prolific American short story writer. His stories and writings are known for their surprise endings. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, he was an avid reader and spent his major time reading, everything from dime novels to classics. Some of his famous collections include ‘The Four Millions,’ ‘Heart of The West,’ ‘Cabbages and Kings,’ ‘The Trimmed Lamp,’ ‘Roads of Destiny,’ ‘The Gentle Grafter,’ ‘Options,’ and ‘The Voice of The City,’ amongst various others. Here is a collection of quotes and sayings by O. Henry which have been curated from his writings, stories, thoughts, poems, etc. Read through the compilation of notable and quotable quotes and thoughts by O. Henry on service, lights, unknown, achieve, environmental, smiles, farmer, happy, old-days, women, children, funny, nature, royal, American, business, fortune etc.

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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.

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.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.