"All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we ..."
- O. Henry
"It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York."
"Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark."
"It'll be a great place if they ever finish it."
"Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me."
"Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts."
"Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper."
"She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed."
"If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York."
"My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you."