History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed…

Quote byO. Henry · 1862–1910

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Roads of Destiny (1909), "Next to Reading Matter".

English (original)

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

— O. Henry

Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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

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

Take it from me — he's got the goods.