Cigar Quotes

#1. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Demi Moore

#3. When all else fails ... try smoking a good cigar and have a stiff drink. If that doesn't work ... have another.

Timothy Pina

#4. There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

Fidel Castro

#5. Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars

James Woods

#6. There was a young man of Herne Bay
who was making some fireworks one day:
but he dropped his cigar
in the gunpowder jar.
There was a young man of Herne Bay.

Ogden Nash

#7. Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

#9. He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.

H.G.Wells

#10. I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. He wanted to bring up his plan for a retreat, but something told him not to. "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" he opened instead. "Yes," Grant replied chewing on a cigar. "Lick 'em tomorrow, though."75

Robert L. O'Connell

#12. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow than most people have on their entire head.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a vice. The others were just job skills.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

Bob Cousy

#15. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

Mark Twain

#16. Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

Bob Marley

#17. A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

George Sand

#18. If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

Marshall Herskovitz

#19. Close but no cigar

Lawrence Sanders

#20. He strains his conversation through a cigar.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#21. There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

D. L. Hughley

#22. An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?

Jason Lutes

#23. It is not a good idea to spray finest brandy across the room, especially when your lighted cigar is in the way.

Terry Pratchett

#24. I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

Thomas R. Marshall

#26. It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Anton Chekhov

#27. I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

Barney Frank

#28. My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Carl Sandburg

#29. Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life ... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Sigmund Freud

#30. . . . private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.

Jeff Sharlet

#31. He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.

Michael Thomas Ford

#32. I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

#33. After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.

Brad Shaw

#34. It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air.

Henry Miller

#35. No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.

Mark McGinty

#36. I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.

Charles Bukowski

#37. A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Raul Julia

#38. You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

#39. If you can't send money, send tobacco.

George Washington

#40. No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is just a loser

Nenia Campbell

#41. A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Fuller

#42. If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Mark Twain

#43. Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Bobby Darin

#44. One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

Soren Kierkegaard

#45. A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

George Gissing

#46. I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.

Tom Leykis

#47. A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Franz Liszt

#48. There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent of the roses. The bright colors merged into one another, and the music rose and fell.

Joan G. Robinson

#49. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

#50. In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

Ishmael Reed

#51. Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.

Archibald Wavell

#52. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.

Vincent Brooks

#53. All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

Parul Wadhwa

#54. When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

Mark Grace

#55. There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.

Joe Eszterhas

#56. I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Daisy Fuentes

#57. In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

Gore Vidal

#58. Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

Michael Douglas

#59. A big cigar was jammed in the corner of his wide mouth. Blue-gray smoke wafted to the ceiling rafters, curling around the big wagon-wheel chandelier like ghostly tendrils.

Kymber C. Hawke

#60. Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Stephen King

#61. A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

Malcolm Forbes

#62. That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

Garth Brooks

#63. A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.

Karl Kraus

#64. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

Anton Chekhov

#65. I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

W.C. Fields

#66. And you go on toward your ocean, the cigar biting your lips the way love used to.

Charles Bukowski

#67. He threw his cigar away and looked up at the outstretched Galaxy. "Back to oil and coal, are they?" he murmured - and what the rest of his thoughts were he kept to himself.

Isaac Asimov

#68. The enjoyment of a cigar after a hard week gives me a feeling of well-being and relaxation that a Valium could not match. While there may be a more ideal form of stress reduction, I haven't yet discovered anything else as effective and easy.

Lou Gehrig

#69. Also I don't want to refer to myself as Maximilian. You'd have to win an Oscar or become mind-numbingly wealthy or hit 50. It's like smoking a cigar, you know what I mean? You can't be a young guy and do it.

Max Irons

#70. The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

George Sand

#71. When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

George Burns

#72. Tampa's Latin quarter, Ybor City. Ybor had been the Cuban-Italian core when Tampa was Cigar City USA.

Tim Dorsey

#73. Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
established my identity.

Charles Dickens

#74. The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.

Charles R. Drysdale

#75. I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.

Gina Gershon

#76. They don't tend to feature the kind of vaginas I like in adult films. I tend to like a thick, heavy pussy - the kind of pussy that looks like it just smoked an exploding cartoon cigar.

Jim Norton

#77. Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'

La India

#78. Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

Chris Matthews

#79. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

#80. I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Groucho Marx

#81. Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar.

Philip Roth

#82. Sweet-briar and southern-wood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is - I know it well - it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.

Charlotte Bronte

#83. One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar - just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck out.

Sheryl Sandberg

#84. Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Thomas Hood

#85. Before the eyes shut
this knife shines snow-
bright once more through the inner organs
as using a nuclear bomb to light a cigar
sends lung cancer across the earth
to parting lovers

Xiaobo Liu

#86. I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

Mark Twain

#87. An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

Jimmy Fallon

#88. Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. "Tout le monde sur le balcon, as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony.

Cassandra Clare

#89. The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

Anthony Trollope

#90. Luchese lit his cigar and pushed up the sleeves of his jacket as if preparing for work. Bring it on, fuckface, James thought. It was hard to take seriously a man that wasn't smart enough to just take the damn jacket off.

Genevieve Dewey

#91. I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

Neal Shusterman

#92. Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Raul Julia

#93. The cigar made its traverse from one side of Harry King to the other. He was known to dote on his daughters, who he felt had rather suffered from having a father who needed to take two baths just to get dirty.

Terry Pratchett

#94. And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp's waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn to cigar smoke when the North Star appears.

Michel Leiris

#95. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

#96. You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde

F Scott Fitzgerald

#97. Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

Raul Julia

#98. The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

Mark Twain

#99. No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

Irwin Winkler

#100. Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.
Mac orders, "Deb, stop!"
Deb says, "It's just a scratch. I'll worry about it later.

David McKoy