Top 100 Quotes About Cigars
#1. (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
#2. You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.
Franco Nero
#3. A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
Thurston Clarke
#4. Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Will Rogers
#5. If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.
Mark Twain
#6. I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.
Ron White
#7. The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert Frost
#8. I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.
Mark Twain
#9. Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
Neal Stephenson
#10. The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements "one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores" on the city of New York. Realizing
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#11. Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the
fulness of time he got used to it.
Henry James
#12. The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.
H.L. Mencken
#13. Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
Don Johnson
#14. Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen
#15. I went to a cigar store, the man behind the counter asked me, "What kind of cigars do you like?" I answered, "It's a Boys."
Mitch Hedberg
#16. When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.
David Letterman
#17. There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.
Ron White
#18. No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
Mark Twain
#19. Canada is a long way to go to get Cuban Cigars" Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#20. It'd taken another half hour under the shower to peel his throbbing eyes open and get rid of the stench of cheap whiskey and even cheaper cigars.
Alexandra Ivy
#21. Cigars are society. They are the food you eat and the bed where you sleep. They are the clothes you wear and the shoes on your feet. Cigars are, at the very least, responsible for everything you and I have.
Mark McGinty
#22. When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
Benjamin Carson
#33. 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
#34. Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
Joan Collins
#35. 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
#36. Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.
Jonah Goldberg
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
Jamie Farr
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.
H.L. Mencken
#44. The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.
Keith Preston
#45. I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
Al Hirt
#46. 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
#47. If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go.
Mark Twain
#48. 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
#49. I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
George Burns
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
Ulysses S. Grant
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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.
#60. 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
#61. President Kennedy stocked up on Cuban Cigars just before signing the embargo.
Hank Bracker
#62. 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
#63. Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars
James Woods
#64. I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns
#65. Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.
Bobby Sherman
#66. Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.
Lois Greiman
#67. I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.
Rush Limbaugh
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
Shelley Winters
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler.
Cigars.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#75. 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
#76. It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my
wine
Charles Bukowski
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin Pierce Adams
#84. 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
#86. By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
John Galsworthy
#87. Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
Curtis LeMay
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.
Mark Twain
#95. 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
#96. I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!
Thomas Hardy
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
