Tobacco Smoking Quotes

• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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• I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hate, Cigarette Smoke, Two

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• I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Smoking, Literature

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Funny, Marriage, Cigarette Smoke

  "The Betrothed" st. 25 (1886)

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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

  Liza Minnelli

  Funny, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

  Brooke Shields

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

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• The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

  David Byrne

  Marijuana, Smoking, Trying

  "Shock pictures to scare smokers" by David Gow, James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

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• But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Cigarette Smoke

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Reason

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Sleep, Animal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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• If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Two, Smoking

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• There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Observer, October 30, 1988.

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• More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Smoking, Cigar

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

  Barbara Kelly

  Believe, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

  King James I

  Sports, Eye, Cigarette Smoke

  "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Men, Smoking Cigars

  "Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Smoking, Judgement

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• The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Smoking, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.452, Harvard University Press

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