O. Henry Quotes

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

All the great things are simple.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Making something simple is very difficult.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.