O. Henry Quotes

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

I am not a cheat and never have been.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can.

What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.

I don't like to plan anything.

I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

It is important for me to feel at home.

Quite simply, it is true that I can be a pig! It is not a lie to say that. Sometimes, I feel that I am in the right even when I am wrong.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

I long to kiss the image of my death.

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

I am one of the crucified dead.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.