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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
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
— O. Henry
But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.
— Henry David Thoreau
Don't let 'em see they killed you!
— Henry V. O'Neil
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
— O. Henry
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
— O. Henry
It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident.
— Henry V. O'Neil
Will you buy my hair?
— O. Henry
O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
— O. Henry
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
— Burton Raffel
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
— O. Henry
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
— Peter Riegert
By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!
— Henry Dunant
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
— O. Henry
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
— Henry Vaughan
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
My life is like an O Henry story ... the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.
— Rainbow Rowell
Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.
— Flannery O'Connor
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
— David O. McKay
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
— Flannery O'Connor
That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow.
— Henry V. O'Neil
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
— Henry V. O'Neil
Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.
— Henry V. O'Neil
Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
— O. Henry
I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
— Dwight Henry
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
— O. Henry
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before - it's nothing!
— Henry V. O'Neil
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
— O. Henry
I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'
— Henry Rollins
O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
— O. Henry
And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.
— O. Henry
Bolivar cannot carry double
— O. Henry
Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks.It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends - never easy.
— O. Henry
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
— O. Henry
Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".
— O. Henry
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places.
— O. Henry
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
— O. Henry
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
— O. Henry
Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling - something
— 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
Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains.
— O. Henry
This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.
— Henry V. O'Neil
O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
— O. Henry
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
— Henry Austin Dobson
Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.
— Flannery O'Connor
She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed
necessary but scarcely noticed. — O. Henry
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed
necessary but scarcely noticed. — O. Henry
I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
— O. Henry
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Because Banshees don't think much of medals!
— Henry V. O'Neil
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
— O. Henry
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.
— O. Henry
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
— O. Henry
Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
— Maureen O'Hara
O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
— O. Henry
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow