Charles Lamb Quotes

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

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

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

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

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

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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.

The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

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 keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

The Spaniards generally call it Tobacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder, they use to take the fume or smoke thereof, by sucking it thorough pipes made of clay, into their stomach and head; from whence it purgeth superfluous phlegm and other gross humours, and openeth all the pores and passages of the body: by which means the use thereof not only preserveth the body from obstructions, but also … in short time breaketh them; whereby their bodies are notably preserved in health, and know not many grievous diseases, wherewithall we in England are often times afflicted.

If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Smoking is gross.