1862-1910, American short-story Writer
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. Henry Porter – [Crime and Criminals]
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry Porter – [Bohemia]
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry Porter – [Men and Women]
It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. Henry Porter – [Cheating]
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry Porter – [Men and Women]
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, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. Henry Porter – [Home]