Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with…

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and…

— Lord Byron

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

— Bill Vaughan

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

— Charles Sprague Sargent

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

— Douglas Adams

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

— Frederick Marryat

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to…

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Charles Lamb

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not…

— Georges Simenon

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

— Albert Einstein

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a…

— Ben Jonson

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume…

— King James I