“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
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.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“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
“There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.”
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
How to murder a Bolivian boy http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/jun01/daniels.htm (June 2001). <br class="br">New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
“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.