O. Henry Quotes

Turn up the lights; I don’t want to go home in the dark.

A story with a moral appended is like the bite of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yap town-on-the-Hudson, called New York.

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.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.