A Few Cigar Quotes....

[cohibaIV]

A Collection of Witty Remarks and Unquestionable Truths about the cigar.

There aren?t too many bad habits that can inspire such amusing quotes.
And while you may not recognize many of the names, what you will find is their words reflect the love and appreciation of a great cigar

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Of course, he most famous cigar quote comes from King Edward VII of England. During the reign of Queen Victoria, smoking was frowned upon and not allowed at court. That changed when Edward VII came to the throne at the beginning of the 20th Century, and after dinner pronounced, "Gentlemen, you may smoke."

"My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you."
-- Sigmund Freud - to his young nephew, Harry, after he declined a cigar

"A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world."
-- Franz Liszt, Composer

Where there's a good smoke there's a cigar smoker."
-- Cuban saying

"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill

"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity."
-- Charles Dickens

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
-- Mark Twain

"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

?A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.?
-- Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian

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The Scent of a Good Cigar

What is it comes through the deepening dusk,-
Something sweeter than jasmine scent,
Sweeter than rose and violet blent,
More potent in power than orange or musk?
The scent of a good cigar.
I am all alone in my quiet room,
And all the windows are open wide and free
To let in the south wind's kiss for me,
While I rock in the softly gathering gloom,
And that subtle fragrance steals.
Just as a loving, tender hand
Will sometimes steal in yours,
It softly comes through the open doors,
And memory wakes at its command,-
The scent of that good cigar.
And what does it say? Ah, that's for me
And my heart alone to know;
But that heart thrills with a sudden glow,
Tears fill my eyes till I cannot see,-
From the scent of that good cigar.

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"I vow and believe that the cigar has been one of the greatest creature comforts of my life -- a kind companion, a gentle stimulant, an amiable anodyne, a cementer of friendship."

"Women are really jealous of cigars...they regard them as a strong rival."

William Thackeray

[Robusto]

"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."
?Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Darnley

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman?or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
?George Burns

"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls."
?John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

"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, Time Must Have a Stop

"A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world".
Franz Liszt

"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar".
Groucho Marx

"A good Havana is one of the best pleasures I know".
Somerset Maugham

"Heaven is a large Havana cigar with black coffee for breakfast".
Rev Thaddeus Birchard

"The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar".
Evelyn Waugh

"Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams".
Victor Hugo

"If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go".
Mark Twain

"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

"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


?The President inserted a cigar into Ms Lewinsky's vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: "It tastes good?
Kenneth Starr quotes

[Deano]

Blimey Robusto, good show!

Might add a 'revolving' quote to the forums and add all we've had so far.

i.e. the top of the page will show a quote everytime u visit the page.

[Robusto]

I have to confess I've - ahem - 'borrowed' these from a cigar nut on Facebook, but I thought these were good to add to the list.

My name's Bryan, by the way.

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‘I have met many alchemists who have let gold go up in smoke, but only you Sir Walter have I seen transmute smoke into gold.’
QUEEN ELIZABETH 1

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?I would smoke it when I had very good news or very bad news. If it was good news, I would celebrate with a cigar, but if it was bad news, it really compensated for the bad news.?
FIDAL CASTRO

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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues."
-- Abraham Lincoln

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"As you approach thirty, you have a thirty ring gauge; as you approach fifty, you have a fifty ring gauge."
-- Cuban saying

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"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit."
-- Jack Nicholson

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"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

[Wildwood]

Not a quote as such, but a very amusing anecdote about the great Groucho!

As follows:

In his capacity as a comedian on "You Bet Your Life" Groucho Marx interviewed many of the show's participants. He once interviewed a certain Mrs Story, who claimed to have given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband," she said by way of explanation. "I like my cigar, too," Groucho replied, "but I take it out once in a while."

Well, I thought it was funny!

Wildwood

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"Two cigars on top of each other reveal an obsession or a brutality of the soul."
-- Eugene Marsan

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"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls."
-- John Galsworthy