A Quote by George du Maurier

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

George du Maurier

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Circle Gets More Vicious

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George du Maurier
British - Cartoonist
March 6, 1834 - October 8, 1896

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

Clive James

In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother is ready to give her breast to the child because the shape is lost. So in the West smoking is increasing more and more; even small children are smoking.

Rajneesh

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Stephen King

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

Sam Manekshaw

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Juvenal

Steve Laury smokes playing octaves.

Nathan East

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

Etgar Keret

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

H. L. Mencken

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Ron Chernow

Ricky Washington is from a Baptist church in Miami, Florida, and he can pretty much sing anything. We just started working it up at soundcheck, and holy smokes, it's just great! The audience gets to singing. So there's that stuff to do - find some old obscure R&B stuff - because we can do it justice.

Joe Walsh

Just because a girl wears short skirts and smokes and drinks, she's not easy!

Madhura Naik

His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings.

Rodney Dangerfield

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Clifton and I don't even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He's a big fat guy, and if it weren't for me, no one would know who he is.