Petrus Borel Quotes

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.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

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

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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.

This blessed gift of smoking!

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

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

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

Study the history of almost any criminal and you find an inveterate cigarette smoker

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.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.