Quotes About Snuff

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

What pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

So Mauclair takes snuff, does he? he asked carelessly. `Yes, Mr. Commissary....Look, there is his snuff-box on that little shelf....Oh! he's a great snuff-taker! So am I, said Mifroid and put the snuff-box in his pocket.

And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her

And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?' Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.

The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.

She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Several shadowy forms rose when she entered.

To snuff a candle is pleasing. But to finish you, my dear, is to blot out a sun. How could I resist it?

There's a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it's just inhaled three tons of snuff.

C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out," Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Some unscrupulous ngangas, traditional herbalists and sorcerers, say they know how to defeat this sickness, for a fee. And they prescribe snuff to be shoved up the vagina; or muti, various bogus unguents and ointments made from the ground bones of wild animals.

Harry Dresden Taxidermy. If you snuff it, we'll stuff it.

even the gendarme who is posted at the distant door — a man, perhaps, who has never before compassed a smile, but is more accustomed to dealing out blows to the populace — summons up a kind of grin, even though the grin resembles the grimace of a man who is about to sneeze after inadvertently taking an over-large pinch of snuff.

At its worst, the woke cult of transgenders is a cross between voyeurism and morbidity, a fascination with the sexually bizarre, a politically correct version of snuff pornography. It's at the "intersectionality" of the lassitudinous culture of the Hamptons and the depraved sexual ennui of Hollywood.

We stayed with Jock's aunt and uncle, in their compound below the posh Malabar Hill. Jock's parents and two of his three brothers were there, having come to see if I was up to snuff. I wanted to have a long look at them all, too—the new family I'd won, as if in a lottery. On