Our Favourite Cigar Quotes and Sayings

A Collection of Witty Remarks and Unquestionable Truths about
a Great Cuban 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 Cuban cigar.

We had fun collecting these cigar quotes; we hope you find the same joy in reading them.

"A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world."
~ Franz Liszt, Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer

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

"The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana cigar."
~ Sir Evelyn Waugh, English satirical novelist

"To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine."
~ Anonymous

“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, radio announcer

“Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.”
~ Mark Twain, American humourist and author

“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, author

"There are two things a man never forgets -- his first love and his first cigar."
~ John Bain, cigar lover

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

"He who has money smokes cigars. But he who has no money smokes paper."
~ Spanish saying

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

"The best cigar in the world is the one you prefer to smoke on special occasions, enabling you to relax and enjoy that which gives you maximum pleasure."

"If your wife doesn't like the aroma of your cigar, change your wife."
~ Zino Davidoff, founder of the Davidoff & Cie tobacco company

"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, American humourist and author

"Cognac and cigars...it's like finding the perfect woman. When you've got her, why go chasing after another?"
~ Michael Nouri, American actor

"They had no good cigars there, my Lord; I left the place in disgust."
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet, returning from Venice

"Cigarettes are for chain-smoking, 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."
~ G. Cabera Infante, Cuban novelist

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

“I have not smoked for seven weeks. At first I felt, as expected, outrageously bad. Cardiac symptoms accompanied by mild depression, as well as the horrible misery of abstinence. These wore off but left me completely incapable of working, a beaten man. After seven weeks, I began smoking again. Since the first few cigars, I was able to work and was master of my mood; before that life was unbearable.”
~ Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst

"Allah made tobacco grow to put a smile on the faces of men."
~ Turkish proverb

"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit."
~ Jack Nicholson, American actor, explaining why he switched from cigarettes to cigars

“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His Name.”
~ Charles H. Spurgeon, British Baptist preacher

“The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.”
~ Auguste Barthelemy, French satirical poet

"On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul."
~ Stendhal, pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, French writer

“Eventually I smoked Havanas. A cigars makers' organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I don't know if that's 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, American comedian and actor