Cigar Quotes - Page 4

• You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

  Thomas P. O'Neill III

  Jobs, Cuban Cigars, Politics

  1977 Advice to Vice-President Walter P Mondale. Quoted in Time, 4 Jun1984.

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Blue, Havana, Wells

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• I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

  W. C. Fields

  Nine

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• 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

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• 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

  Rumor, Scandal, Internet

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• There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ugly, Smokers

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• Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  Marvin Shanken

  Strong, Scotch, Cuban Cigars

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• I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

  Raul Julia

  Book, Reading, Wife

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

  Daisy Fuentes

  Appreciate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

  D. L. Hughley

  Length, Girth

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• If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

  Chuck Jones

  Baby, Looks, Mouths

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• If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

  George Burns

  Sleep, Firsts, Paid

  "CNN Larry King Live", July 4, 2003.

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• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Ocean, Past

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• No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.

  William Maginn

  Suicide, Committed, Smokers

  William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137

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• No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Judging

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

  Samuel Fuller

  Scripts, Motion Pictures

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• I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Humorous, Ambition

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• The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

  Keith Preston

  Dark, Light, Killers

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• What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Smoking, Needs

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• Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

  Stephen King

  Stories, Sometimes, Smoke

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Age

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• There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Observer, October 30, 1988.

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• 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

  Wisdom, Drinking, Age

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.154

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• And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dinner, Habit, Newspapers

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• 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

  Girl, Giving, Smoking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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