Tobacco Quotes

• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Coffee, Marijuana, Addiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Plant

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• I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

  Babe Ruth

  Wine, Beer, Thinking

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• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Science, Marijuana, Smoking

  Reader's Digest December 1961

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

  Edward Kennedy

  Years, Smoking, Congress

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• But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

  Larry Hagman

  Turkeys, People, Alcohol

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• Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

  Thomas Hood

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

  Norman Lindsay

  Smoking, Fur, Said

  Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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• 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

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Failure, Cigarette Smoke, Light

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Smoking, Slavery, Conspiracy

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

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Sake, Dies

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

  Benny Hill

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, One Day

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  Florence King

  Morning, Sex, Cigarette Smoke

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Girl, Best Love, Kissing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  Dan Quayle

  Marijuana, Smoking, Should

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