Charles Lamb Quotes

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

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

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

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.

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

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

… Smoking sets a bad example.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

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

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

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

You're an addiction...my obsession.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive.

I'm an addict for underwear.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

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

I was a smoker for about 20 years.