Top 100 Quotes About Cigars
#1. President Kennedy stocked up on Cuban Cigars just before signing the embargo.
Hank Bracker
#2. (When asked for advice for younger musicians) Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.
Tom Waits
#3. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
#4. Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars
James Woods
#5. I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns
#6. Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.
Bobby Sherman
#7. Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.
Lois Greiman
#8. I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.
Rush Limbaugh
#9. Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum
John Candy
#10. And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.
Thomas Merton
#11. He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.
John Berryman
#12. I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
Shelley Winters
#13. 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
#14. In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
George Burns
#15. I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler.
Cigars.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#16. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Anthony Trollope
#17. It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
#18. You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
P. J. O'Rourke
#19. Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.
Kinky Friedman
#20. 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
#21. Death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my
wine
Charles Bukowski
#22. Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had
like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.
LeRoy Neiman
#23. Hey, how 'bout those Cubs'"-the bad male impersonation was back-" 'let's play some golf, smoke some cigars. Here's my penis, there's yours-yep, they appear to be about the same size-okay, lets's do some deals.
Julie James
#24. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin Pierce Adams
#25. When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that the world is unstable and wonders whether he is supposed to walk on his hind legs and smoke cigars.
Corey Ford
#26. A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
Franz Liszt
#28. By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
John Galsworthy
#29. Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
Curtis LeMay
#30. He and Helen spent the rest of the winter there, seeing friends and promoting his cigars. He staged one stunt in which he smoked three cigars at one time.
Wilborn Hampton
#31. His idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy.
Neal Stephenson
#32. When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!
Mark Grace
#33. Cigars are no safe alternative act.
Ed Markey
#34. 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
#35. I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars
Johnny Depp
#36. I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time. I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.
Henry Rollins
#37. My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
#38. And there will be no more interruptions and you will be staying for dessert, coffee, and cigars.
Abraham Verghese
#39. Stairs. Gray halls. Nye sniffed the odors, separating one from another: lavatory disinfectant, alcohol, dead cigars. Beyond
Truman Capote
#40. Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
Billy Martin
#41. Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.
Frank Sinatra
#42. Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.
Jack Kerouac
#43. You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O'Neill
#44. I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.
Jack Benny
#45. She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.
Alexia liked her immediately.
Gail Carriger
#46. Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!
Winston Churchill
#47. 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
#48. I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
Cameron Diaz
#49. A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip them and send them to bed. Such children should be dealt with as
John R. Stilgoe
#50. I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.
Mark Twain
#51. I stared at the phone in disbelief, then ripped a clean sheet of paper from my notebook. I scribbled ' Jerk ' on the first line. On the line beneath it I added, ' Smokes cigars. Will die of lung cancer. Hopefully soon.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#52. I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.
Groucho Marx
#53. As I stomped across the school grounds, all I could see was Cal sitting with my dad in some manly room with leather chairs and dead animals on the wall, chomping on cigars as my dad formally signed me away to him. They probably even high-fived.
Rachel Hawkins
#54. Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
George Burns
#55. He was young and tall, his hair was the color of fresh corn, his fingers were as thick as cigars, and he had his clarinet with him.
Peter Baida
#56. I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!
Thomas Hardy
#57. in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw. Let
J.M. Barrie
#58. I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.
John Toshack
#59. A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. I prefer to think of it as burning down their crops. [when asked why he - a fervent anti-Communist - smoked Cuban cigars]
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.
#61. It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time.
Michael Lewis
#62. At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
A music club and music warehouse pretty.
Heinrich Heine
#63. Both my happiness and unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex, travel, reading, conversation (hearing oneself talk), food, drink, cigars and lying in warm water.
Cyril Connolly
#64. Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin
"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom
Bill Watterson
#65. Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
Ulysses S. Grant
#66. Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge.
"Lionel hates it too," murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.
Alan Hollinghurst
#68. When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
Bernie Mac
#69. I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.
Carlos Delgado
#70. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns
#71. We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.
Bram Stoker
#72. I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
George Burns
#73. He drank no hard liquor but loved wine, taking perhaps three glasses a day.42 He did not smoke. When he received gifts of Havana cigars from well-wishers, he passed them along to friends.43
Jon Meacham
#74. If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go.
Mark Twain
#75. Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'
James Coburn
#76. I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
Al Hirt
#77. The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.
Keith Preston
#78. There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.
H.L. Mencken
#79. I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club
Al Goldstein
#80. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.
Gail Carriger
#81. I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.
Ron White
#82. You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
Jamie Farr
#83. I smoke a pipe abroad, because
To all cigars I much prefer it,
And as I scorn you social laws,
My choice has nothing to deter it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#85. The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see our Zooey again.
J.D. Salinger
#86. Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.
Jonah Goldberg
#87. Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#88. Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
Joan Collins
#89. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.
Mark Twain
#90. What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men ... Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar.
James Belushi
#91. Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
Benjamin Carson
#92. You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.
Bruce Aidells
#93. It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.
Fran Lebowitz
#94. I felt like I was ten again and had been caught using my uncle's Cuban cigars as miniature canoes in the toilet.
Katie MacAlister
#95. Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
Robin McKinley
#96. I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.
Schoolboy Q
#97. A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded.
Groucho Marx
#98. On My Interest in Smoking Cigars You're not a cigar guy ... . Well, the first reason that jumps out at me is that you hold it like you're jerking off a mouse.
Justin Halpern
#99. No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.
Giovannino Guareschi
#100. King Edward, who "smoke cigars, was addicted to and entente cordials, married a Sea King's daughter and invented appendicitis," pursued a policy of peace that "was very successful and culminated in the Great War to End War.
Jane Ridley
