Who said “There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry…”?

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”

“Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.”

“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.”

“Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. [On being a high-profile social smoker]”

“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”

“People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

“From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.”

“When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.”

“Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.”