“ 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- Copy
- 597
“ You know, it's cigarettes that killed Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. ”
- John Mellencamp- Copy
- 504
“ On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ”
- Alexander Kendrick- Copy
- 2.4K
“ They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
- 693
“ She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. ”
- Earl Weaver- Copy
- 103
“ How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 335
“ Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a carelessly tossed match or cigarette. After all, forests can be replanted. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
- 290
“ The French were so dominant, their goalie never had to drop his cigarette. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
- 1.9K
“ What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. ”
- Arturo Toscanini- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself. ”
- Barbara Kelly- Copy
- 879
“ Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house. ”
- Sara Murray Jordan- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ”
- Bill Blass- Copy
- 3.6K
“ When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. ”
- Pat Brown- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The salesgirl handed her a bright little wad of cloth that could be roomily stowed in a cigarette pack. ”
- William Hamilton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses… ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
- 418
“ They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country… ”
- Wilma Rudolph- Copy
- 816
“ He was built on large lines, and seemed to fill the room to overflowing. In physique he was not unlike what Primo Carnera would have been if Carnera hadn't stunted his growth by smoking cigarettes when a boy. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed reached for a cigarette, lighted it and waited for the police to come and take me into custody. ”
- Alice B. Toklas- Copy
- 1.5K
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