Smoking Rooms

Famous quotes containing the words smoking and/or rooms:

“The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“By sitting dressed like this, in rooms like these,
Saying I can’t guess what just fancy, when
They could be really drinking, or in bed....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)