Cigarette Quotes

• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Cigarette
  • Nine

• There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Girl
  • Light
  • Cigarette

• I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Years
  • Bird

• When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Cool
  • Walking

• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fire
  • Symptoms
  • Holmes

• It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Grew
  • Cigarette

• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Everything

• In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Hands
  • Romantic
  • Glamorous

• [I typically start my day with] coffee and a cigarette... Smoking is terrible, to smoke a cigarette as the first thing in the day is the worst thing you can do to yourself... I want to stop smoking, I have smoked almost a pack a day, you see, since I was 16. I told my parents immediately. They always wanted me to be honest with them... my father accepted my promise not to smoke more than two or three cigarettes a day. But unfortunately it didn't quite work out.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Parents

• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • School
  • Storm
  • Jammed

• I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fun
  • Dope
  • Smack

• I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

  

  Jack Roy
  • General
  • Cigarette
  • Surgeon

• Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Up
  • Real
  • Rest

• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Gold
  • Stuck

• We had a lot of copies out on a table, and all of a sudden we realized that in the photo on the back of the jacket he was holding a cigarette.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Table
  • Copies
  • Photo

• It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Actors
  • Blow

• I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fun
  • Decision
  • Dope

• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Trying
  • She
  • Mom

• Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Angel

• I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Sound
  • Load
  • Twists

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

  

  Loni Anderson
  • People
  • Up
  • Amazing

• I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Long
  • Heroin
  • Tobacco

• At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Give Up
  • Cigarette

• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Smoking
  • Hazards
  • Fetish

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