“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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“There's no smoke without fire.”
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“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839).
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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.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
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.