Smoking A Pipe Quotes by Charles Dickens, Russell Hoban, Charles Lamb, Abraham Lincoln, Florence King, Mark Twain and many others.

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
established my identity.
established my identity.
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.
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it’s the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.
A cigar has “…a fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s enjoyment of his cigar.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
If you can’t send money, send tobacco.
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.