Tom Stoppard Quotes

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 then put them in my mouth.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

No one smokes because they like the way it tastes. If we did, they'd make cigarette-flavored cookies, candy, ice cream. What is this? Marlboro fudge with nuts? Give me a scoop of that, willya? She's gonna have the Menthol Swirl with the Camel chip.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

From the very beginning I started with a beer and a cigarette because I couldn't figure out what to do with my hands. So usually I have a beer and cigarette and that's what I was doing with my hands because that looked natural and felt good.

I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.