O`Henry citáty page 2

„Starec je ten, kto má o desať rokov viac než ty.“

Prisudzované výroky

„Láska na prvý pohľad je riskantný podnik.“

Prisudzované výroky

„Narodiť sa je nebezpečnejším dobrodružstvom pre ženu, než pre muža.“

„Láska, práca, rodina, náboženstvo, umenie, vlastenectvo sú prázdne slová pre toho, kto zomiera od hladu.“

„Človek sa nikdy neteší z niečoho tak, ako sa tešil na niečo.“

„Milujeme tak, ako vieme.“

Varianta: Nikdy sa človek neteší z niečoho tak, ako sa teší na niečo.

„Keby muži vedeli, ako ženy trávia čas, keď sú samy, nikdy by sa neoženili.“

O`Henry Citáty o ženách

„Sú dve chvíle, keď nemôžeme nikdy povedať, čo sa stane: prvá je, keď si dá muž svoj prvý drink, a druhá, keď si žena dá svoj posledný.“

„Žena vysokého intelektu a dokonalej krásy, to je vzácna vec. Rovnako ojedinelá ako omeleta z vajec vtáka ohniváka.“

„Ženy vždy prídu s nejakým prekvapením alebo s nápadom, o ktorý nikto neprosil.“

“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”

O`Henry: Citáty v angličtine

“Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”

O. Henry kniha The Four Million

"The Gift of the Magi" - Full text online http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)

“Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.”

"From Each According to His Ability"
The Voice of the City (1908)

“Take it from me — he's got the goods.”

"A Municipal Report"
Strictly Business (1910)

“Kerner's father was worth a couple of millions. He was willing to stand for art, but he drew the line at the factory girl. So Kerner disinherited his father and walked out to a cheap studio and lived on sausages for breakfast and on Farroni for dinner.”

"The Unprofitable Servant"

“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”

"The Fool-Killer"
The Voice of the City (1908)

“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.”

"A Ruler of Men" Rolling Stones http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3815/3815-h/3815-h.htm (1913)

“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.”

"The Gold that Glittered"
Strictly Business (1910)

“It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.”

"The Country of Elusion"
The Trimmed Lamp (1907)

“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”

"The Octopus Marooned"
The Gentle Grafter (1908)

“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 see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”

O. Henry kniha Roads of Destiny

"Next to Reading Matter"
Roads of Destiny (1909)

“In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.”

O. Henry kniha Roads of Destiny

"The Fourth in Salvador"
Roads of Destiny (1909)

“She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).”

"The Plutonian Fire"
The Voice of the City (1908)

“A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.”

"A Ramble in Aphasia"
Strictly Business (1910)

“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.”

“Makes the Whole World Kin,” Sixes and Sevens (1911)

“The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.”

O. Henry kniha The Four Million

"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog"
The Four Million (1906)

“Bolivar cannot carry double”

O. Henry kniha The Last Leaf

"The Last Leaf"
The Trimmed Lamp (1907)

“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 kniha Whirligigs

"The Roads We Take"
Whirligigs (1910)

“We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.”

"The Plutonian Fire" http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/243/ <br class="br">The Voice of the City (1908)