“The suffering man ought really 'to consume his own smoke'; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire, — which, in the metaphorical sense too, all smoke is capable of becoming!”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
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Thomas Carlyle481
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881Related quotes
Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 2 (p. 151)
The Birthgrave (1975)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), VII On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure
“There's no smoke without fire.”
Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union
Quoted in "Stalin's Generals" - Page 359 - by Harold Shukman - History - 2002
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839).
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“Here come the planes.
They're American planes.
Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?”
Laurie Anderson (1947) American musician
O Superman (1981)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician
Euphues and his Euphœbus, p. 153, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "There is no fire without some smoke", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. v.