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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• Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

  Joan Collins

  Kissing, Men, Smoking

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• Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Humorous, Kissing

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• A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

  Robert M. Gates

  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Funny, Dog, Smoking

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• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Perfect, Smoking

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

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

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Smoking, Needs

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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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• 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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• Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Sleep

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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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• I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Smoking, Cigar, Moderation

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Smoking, Cigar

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• There was a young man of Herne Bay
  who was making some fireworks one day:
  but he dropped his cigar
  in the gunpowder jar.
  There was a young man of Herne Bay.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Men, Smoking

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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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• 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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• Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Anniversary, Sex

  "I give up" by Emily Wilson, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2003.

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• Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Zero, Humorous

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• aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Smoking, Rude

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