I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold. (To Walter Raleigh)
Smoking Quotes
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Was this small plant for thee cut down? So was the plant of great renown; Which mercy sends For nobler ends. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Doth juice medicinal proceed From such a naughty foreign weed? Then what’s the pow’r Of Jesse’s flow’r? Thus think, and smoke tobacco. The promise, like the pipe, inlays, And […]
“I’d just as soon you not smoke in the house, Kathy.” She looked up surprised, lighter poised an inch from her cigarette. “You didn’t mind last night.” She was as attractive as she had been the day before; I wanted to know her better. Were cigarettes going to drive away this woman I could touch […]
Smoking means always having to say you’re sorry.
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said “Cigarettes contain fat.”
Nazi propaganda noted that while fascist leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were all non-smokers, their enemies Roosevelt and Churchill did smoke (as did Stalin).
Do you mind if I smoke? (Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt) I don’t care if you burn.
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen. I like it.
