Smoking Cigars Quotes

• Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

  Curtis LeMay

  Self, Smoking, Wicked

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• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cancer, Hard Work, Smoking

  "The Second Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1966.

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

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• To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, I Can

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

  Richard Carleton

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Girl, Best Love, Kissing

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

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Reason

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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• If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

  Douglas Adams

  Fire, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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

  Charles Dickens

  Smoking, Identity, Cigar

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• Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Humorous, Kissing

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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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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Smoking, Needs

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• The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

  Jack Nicholson

  Smoking, Way, Cigar

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

  King James I

  Sports, Eye, Cigarette Smoke

  "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Two

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Choices, Smoking, Cigar

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• 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

  Life, Men, Here And There

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.31, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

  George Burns

  Taken, Doctors, Funeral

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