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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• 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 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  President, Culture, Infinite

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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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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• 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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• A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humor, Fire, Paper

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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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• 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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• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

  Emile Zola

  Regret, Perfection, 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, Smoking

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

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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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• I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Alcohol, Age, Lots Of Friends

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