Beth Henley Quotes

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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 was a smoker for about 20 years.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

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

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

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

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

It [cigarette smoking] has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes Cigarettes.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Smoking is gross.

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.