Quote

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

O. Henry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Inside
Story
Stories
Good
Coating
Like
Pill
Pills
Sugar
Bitter

More quotes by O. Henry

Image
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry
Image
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
O. Henry
Image
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
O. Henry
Image
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. Henry
Image
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. Henry
Image
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. Henry
Image
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
O. Henry
Image
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
Image
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
Image
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. Henry
Image
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. Henry
Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. Henry
Image
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
O. Henry
Image
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
Image
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. Henry
Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. Henry
Image
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. Henry
Image
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
O. Henry
Image
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. Henry
Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry