Quote #24
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
More from O. Henry
- Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.
- History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
- It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
- You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you se…
- Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
- She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
- I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have bee…
- A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.