Cigarette Quotes-2

 Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit.  Homicidal, but fit.  A different man.  Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine. 

                                    ~A.P. Herbert

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they  have.     

                                     ~Trey Parker, 

        mini-commentary on DVD South Park episode "Butt Out"


I'd rather kiss a mad cow on the muzzle than a smoker on the mouth.  
                           ~Paul Carvel


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 George Bulwer-Lytton, 

                       What Will He Do With It?


In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker.  
                                          ~Author Unknown


A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other.  
                                       ~Author Unknown


Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal.  It makes them soggy and hard to light.  

                               

                                                  ~Author Unknown


Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
                                                  ~Luis Buñuel


Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep:  to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

                            ~Mignon McLaughlin,  

                             The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
                              ~Author Unknown


I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.

                                ~Mignon McLaughlin, 

                                  The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!
                                                 ~Dave Beard


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, 

                                                        Every Man in His Humour


Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs. 
                                              ~Author Unknown


Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress.                                                 
                                                ~Terri Guillemets


Your clothes smell heavily of clothing.  Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air.  The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray.  The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. 

                                            ~Robert Brault, 1973,

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Tobacco, divine, rare super excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

                                              ~Robert Burton,

                                                    Anatomy of Melancholy

The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker.
                                                           ~Author Unknown


They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke.  If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

                                              ~Mignon McLaughlin, 

                                                 The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966  

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it.  I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly.  Not so slowly maybe.  I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from.  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,

                                                Turtle Diary, 1975


A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

                                            ~Rudyard Kipling,  

                                                 The Betrothed

  Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.
                                                 ~Turkish Proverb


Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight.

                                                   ~Charles Sprague,

                                                           "To My Cigar"


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


I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.  
                                 ~Michelle Pfeiffer


Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape.  It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair. 
                              ~Patty Young


To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.
                              ~Terri Guillemets


Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

                                             ~George Gordon, Lord Byron,

                                                       The Island

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. 

                                                                   ~James I of England, 

                                                                        A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604


The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

                                               ~Author Unknown