At Sixes and Sevens Quotes

“Then it's not,' says I, 'and we're after having a pleasant evening, Miss Flynn. Have ye seen the sights of this new Coney Island, then? I presume ye have come here for that purpose,' says I.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens

“I want to ask him to wait," she said. "I have just found my father, and I want it to be just we two for a while. I want to tell him he will have to wait.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens

“Incarnación Felipe de la Cruz y Monte Piedras”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens: Stories

“The note that she struck had beaten down the doors of a closed memory; and Father Abram held his lost Aglaia close in his arms.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens

“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: "Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet," and "Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit"—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens

“Up with the other one," ordered the burglar. "You might be amphibious and shoot with your left. You can count two, can't you? Hurry up, now.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens

“Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.”
― O. Henry, Sixes and Sevens