Snuff Quotes

• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

  James Howell

  Men, Fingers, Another Man

  "English Proverbs". Book by James Howell, 1659.

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• Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

  Alvin Ailey

  Racism, Tears, Racist

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• He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

  Keith Preston

  Laughing, Boxes

  Keith Preston (1921). “Splinters”

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• First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

  Michael Palin

  Naughty, Sight, Hands

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• Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

  Gerald Brenan

  Death, War, Age

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• 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Death, Prayer, Rap

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

  Masao Abe

  Death, Flames, Smell

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• Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Oil, Spirit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press

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• After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Dog, Years, Wags

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.452, Open Road Media

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• It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Swimming, Exercise, Drug

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Earthquakes, Bipolar

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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• The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Learning, Fire, Wind

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• Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Despair, Sun, Firmament

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

  Robin Hobb

  Noses, Ears, Nonsense

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.188, Spectra

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• Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

  Terry Pratchett

  Praying, Goodness

  "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

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• The damaged loves the damaged.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.24, Random House

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• Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, People, Pockets

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.262

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Law, Democracy, Breathe

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Silly, Two

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Chickens, Fishes, Feels

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• The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Sweden

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• Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Example, Warning

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library

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