Idleness Quote by Oscar Wilde

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always…

— Oscar Wilde

“At a long meeting a man next to me, British I hope, said, "Man, I'd kill for a fag about now" I chuckled when…

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“Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world…

— Charles Willeford

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of…

— Oscar Wilde

“He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there…

— Charles Dickens

“But my dear young lady," he said offering a cigarette, "who ever said I have a poor opinion of women? On the contrary, I…

— Frank O'Connor

“Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how…

— Ally Carter

“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I hear her…

— Oscar Wilde

“whenever someone asks him why he smokes, he inevitably answers: “Because I like to cough.”

— Paul Auster

I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is,…

— L.A. Meyer

“I decided if I were ever to get into booze and woman, my line would be "Excuse me, madam, but I would really love…

— David Levithan

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”

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