Quotes by Burton, Robert

The devil is the author of confusion. >>

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. >>

The fear of death is worse than death. >>

Quotations about Smoking

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with the >>

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially a >>

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. [O >>

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

Burton, Robert