Smoking Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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, One Day, Oh Well

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

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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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• They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Beautiful, Clouds, Blue

  Jeffrey Bernard (1986). “Low 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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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

  Liza Minnelli

  Funny, Cigarette Smoke, Statistics

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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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• Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Looks, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.

  Johnny Carson

  Sex, Guy, Meals

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• I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

  Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.369, e-artnow

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• Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Stronger, Opinion, Reason

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

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• There are enough no smoking places now.

  David Hockney

  Marijuana, Enough, No Smoking

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• 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, Want

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

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• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Christy Turlington

  Children, Kids, Parenting

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

  Mark Twain

  Time, Cigar, Tobacco

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

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• We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

  Bob Dole

  Drinking, Kids, Milk

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• Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, People

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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, Heaven

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

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• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Toil, Virtue

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Cleaning, Filling, Mischief

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• Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

  Mitch Daniels

  Real, Marijuana, Cracks

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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, Pleasure

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

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

  Charles Lamb

  Sake, Tobacco, Dies

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Humorous, Ambition

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