Charles Lamb Quotes About Smoking

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  • I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

    On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262
  • Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

  • May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

    Charles Lamb (1848). “Final memorials of Charles Lamb, letters [ed.] with sketches of some of his companions by T.N. Talfourd”, p.135
  • May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

  • This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

    Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207
  • For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

    'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122
  • I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

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