
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
There is no fire without some smoke.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: There is no fyre without some smoke.
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“There's no smoke without fire.”
Quoted in "Stalin's Generals" - Page 359 - by Harold Shukman - History - 2002
“There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.”
How to murder a Bolivian boy http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/jun01/daniels.htm (June 2001).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
“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.