Smoking Quotes

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

When we moved to Cuero I hit the painful and awkward stage of adolescence. I wanted so much to be popular, to exhibit the sort of charisma I admired in my evangelist heroes. My first attempts to gain acceptance failed utterly: I tried sports. I could be fiercely competitive, but I simply wasn’t much of […]

Dear -, I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds. Yours truly, C. H. Spurgeon (Letter to someone who had written to Spurgeon saying he ‘had heard he smoked, and could not believe it true’)

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father’s lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early […]

Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

Half the pretty women in London smoke cigarettes. I prefer the other half.

A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied.

While Mr. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) was living at Nightingale Lane, Clapham, an excursion was one day organized by one of the young men’s classes at the Tabernacle. The brake with the excursionists was to call for the President on their way to mid-Surrey. It was a beautiful early morning, and the men arrived in […]