TOBACCO
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O, finer far
Than fame, or riches, are
The graceful smoke-wreaths of this free cigar!—GEORGE ARNOLD, Beer
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.—BULWER-LYTTON, Darnley
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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.—BULWER-LYTTON, Night and Morning
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Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest.—BYRON, The Island
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys;
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.—COWPER, Conversation
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The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Peter Ibbetson
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Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean.
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it.—G. L HEMMINGER
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A lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire . . there's no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, Westward Ho
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And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.—KIPLING, The Betrothed
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For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.—CHARLES LAMB, A Farewell to Tobacco
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What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.—THOMAS R. MARSHALL
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Attorney-General Seymour of Virginia snorted at the establishment of William and Mary College, which was founded not only to inculcate learning but to save souls. "Souls?" he cried. "Damn your souls. Make tobacco."—WERTENBAKER, Planters of Colonial Virginia
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Perfection is a thing so bothersome that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.—EMILE ZOLA
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