"In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness,……" — O. Henry
"In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness."
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64 Quotes by O. Henry
O. Henry has 64 quotes on this site.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club,…
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as…
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits…
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love,…
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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go…
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
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There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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