Charles Lamb Smoking Quotations

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

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

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.'

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

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.

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.