O. Henry Quotes - Some sharp, serious, inspiring, entertaining, exemplary thoughts of the famous American storyteller, poet and realist writer

On September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, world-renowned American writer William Sydney Porter was born, who became famous and famous as O. Henry. O. Henry became famous worldwide mainly for his short stories. He also wrote poetry and realist literature. His important works include The Gift of the Magi, The Duplicity of Hargreaves, and The Ransom of Red Chief, as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. William Sydney Porter used several pseudonyms (including O. Henry or Olivier Henry) in the early part of his writing career. Other names included S.H. Peters, James L. Bliss, T.B. Dowd, and Howard Clark. The name O. Henry attracted the most attention of editors and the public, and Porter used it for his writings until 1902. He gave several explanations for the origin of his surname.

William Sydney Porter gave an interview to The New York Times in which he explained it – It was during the New Orleans days that I adopted my surname O. Henry. I told a friend I was going to send some material. I don't know if it's much or good so I want to have a literary surname. Help me choose a good surname. He suggested we take a newspaper and choose a name from the first list of notable people found in it. In the society columns we found an account of a fashionable ball, 'Here are our notable people' he said. We looked through the list and my eye fell on the name Henry, that would be good enough for a surname I said. Now for a first name I want something short. None of your three-lettered names do for me. Then why don't you use a simple initial letter? my friend asked. Well, I said, O is the easiest letter, and O is it.

William Sydney Porter told another place, Once a newspaperman asked me what O meant. I replied, O stands for Olivier, which is Oliver in French. And accordingly many of my stories appeared in that newspaper under the name Olivier Henry. On September 11, 2012 the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of O. Henry's birth. On November 23, 2011 Barack Obama quoted O. Henry when he pardoned two turkeys named Liberty and Peace. Here are some of O. Henry's sharp, serious, inspiring, amusing, exemplary thoughts

I have found some of my best stories from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

No service seems too difficult when one loves his art.

We seldom marry those whom we love first.

If you cannot write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But forget the public when you write a story.

We must all be liars, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives otherwise the social structure will break down on the first day. We must behave in each other's presence as we should dress. That is best.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man is hungry!

You cannot appreciate home until you have left it, money until it is spent, your wife until she has joined a woman's club, and Old Glory until you see it hanging on a broomstick in some consul's shack in some foreign city.

The loneliest thing in the whole world is a soul when it is ready to go on its mysterious, distant journey.

We may get the climate, but the weather is forced upon us.

My advice is, if you ever get into trouble, stand up with the cowards and save your bravery for a time when it will be of some benefit to you.

All great men have declared that they owe their success to the aid and encouragement of some talented woman.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, should seek our ideal whether it be love or pinochle or lobster a la Newburgh or the sweet silence of shelves of musty books.

Most wonderful are words, and how they befriend one another.

Hospitality is not limited in the prairie country. Even if your enemy passes your way you must feed him before you shoot him.

Put a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless flour of existence.

Luck is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may be hidden in the shadows along the road.

Write what you like. There is no other rule.

If a man has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

I will tell you the whole secret of short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1 Write stories that you like. There is no rule 2.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles dominating.

We can't buy a minute of time with money. If we could, rich people would live longer.

A good story is like a bitter pill with a sugar coating.

The true adventurer goes aimlessly and thoughtlessly to meet and greet unknown fate.

The true adventurer moves forward aimlessly and without thought to meet and greet unknown fortune.

No friendship is a coincidence.

It is not the paths we choose, it is what is inside us that makes us who we are.

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