Charles Lamb Quotes About Smoking

Quotes about: Smoking

• May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, May, Lasts

• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Smoking, Toil

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

  Charles Lamb

  Night, Other Worlds, Smoking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

• May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

  Charles Lamb

  Two, Smoking, Three

  Charles Lamb (1848). “Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd”, p.135

• Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Smoking, Toil

• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Sake, Tobacco

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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