"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
"I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice."
Michel de Montaigne , French essayistThat we taste nothing pure
"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , 35th U.S. President
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
François de La Rochefoucauld , French writerMaxims
"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette."
Colette Earthly Paradise
"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more."
Woody Allen , U.S. actor and comedian
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I've done it a thousand times."
Mark Twain
"When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco."
Arturo Toscanini , Italian conductor
"Yield to temptation—it may not pass your way again."
Robert A. Heinlein