Tobacco

“The money expended for liquor and tobacco is the difference between a young man making a success in life and making a failure.”

“He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.”

“Woman in this scale, the weed in that, Jupiter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee—O Jupiter, try the weed.”

“After he had administer'd a doseOn th' adversary, and thus he spoke.”

“Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!”

“The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again.”

“Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoysThe sex whose presence civilizes ours.”

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

“For I hate, yet love thee, so,More from a mistress than a weed.”

“For thy sake, tobacco, IWould do anything but die.”

“Nay, rather,Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.”

“Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,Does like a smoking Etna seem.”

“Thou through such a mist dost show us,That our best friends do not know us.”

“What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar.”

“A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.”

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

“Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.”

“Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew,And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.”

“And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he heldTook it in snuff.”

“Generally, the control freaks only increase control.  Take cigarettes.  At first it was just warning labels.  Then, bans on t.v. ads.  Then they required restaurants to have no-smoking sections.  Then came the bans on airplanes, schools, workplaces, entire restaurants, then bars, too—and now, sometimes, apartments and outdoor spaces, even.”

“I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.”

“It's all one thing—both tend into one scope— The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.”

“The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.”

“Little tube of mighty pow'r, Object of my warm desire.”

“The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!”

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

“Contented I sit with my pint and my pipe,Man is but a pipe—and his life but smoke.”

“The Indian weed, withered quite,Thus think, then drink tobacco.”

“With pipe and book at close of day,Oh, what is sweeter? mortal say.”

“Tobacco is a traveler, With a relish that inviteth.”

“Some sigh for this and that; So I have my cigar.”

“Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.”

“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.”

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

“For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice betweenOf stumps that I burned to friendship, and pleasure and work and fight.”

“I would I were a cigaretteTo burn my little hour away.”

“Old man, God bless you, does your pipe taste sweetly? At Belgrade's victory.”

“Tobacco's but an Indian weed,Think on this when you smoak Tobacco.”

“Yes, social friend, I love thee well, And lap me in delight.”

“It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tabagie," as Michelet calls it, spreads over all the world. Michelet rails against it because it renders you happily apart from thought or work;… Whatever keeps a man in the front garden, whatever checks wandering fancy and all inordinate ambition, whatever makes for lounging and contentment, makes just so surely for domestic happiness.”

“Am I not—a smoker and a brother?”

“Look at me—follow me—smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! * * * I have some dearer at home. Yes, the expense is frightful, but——it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops?”

“To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.”

“The cigarettes Mr. Slump smoked were prepared by doctors, so the advertisements declared, with the sole purpose of protecting his respiratory system. Yet Mr. Slump suffered and the young secretary suffered with him, hideously. For the first hours of every day he was possessed by a cough which arose from tartarean depths and was relieved only by whisky.”

“Dick Stoype In clouds as dark as sciences metaphysic.”

“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?”

“Lastly, the ashes left behind, Then think, and drink tobacco.”

“I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.”