Umberto Eco Quotes

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

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

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.

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

I don't know, I never smoked AstroTurf.

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.

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 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.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

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.

… Smoking sets a bad example.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I have not yet got one good reason why people smoke in life!

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!

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

It is illegal for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer to sell, or to bring into the state for the purpose of selling, giving away, or otherwise disposing of, any cigarettes, cigarette paper, or substitute for the same

To console ourselves for all those things, happily we still have adultery! Maryland tobacco! And Spanish cigarette paper!

Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke! Whatever you do, just don't smoke!

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

The only thing I rely on is caffeine.

I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.

I'm against cigarettes, always.