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“WHEN ON occasion I’m asked by groups of aspiring writers what they should do to get on, my advice is always, emphatically, smoke. Smoke often and smoke with gusto. It’s a little known, indeed little researched, fact of literature and journalism that no non smoker is worth reading. And writers who give up become crashing bores.”
AA Gill, Sunday Times, July 1999
“I NEITHER coughed nor felt sick. Instead, a sensation of wellbeing filled me, and I became slightly wired, not the reaction you get from alcohol, but sharper and calmer.”
BBC reporter John Simpson, experiencing a cigar for the first time, Sunday Telegraph, July 1999
“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
“The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.”
Jack Nicholson, explaining why he switched from cigarettes to cigars.
“The Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, and certain weeds whose smoke they inhale which are dry weeds stuffed into a certain dry leaf in the form of a muset made of paper, like the ones the children make on the day of the Holy Ghost; and burning a part of it, from the other part they suck or absorb or admit the smoke with breathing.”
Christopher Columbus, from his Navigation diary
“The cigar smoker, like the perfect lover or bagpipe player, is a calm man, slow and sure of his wind”.
Marc Alyn
“A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world”.
Franz Liszt
“The cigar must match the shape of the smoker. Round-faced people should avoid long, thin cigars and vice-versa”.
Kees Van Dongen
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke”.
Kipling
“A Havana Cigar is to the art of smoking what a great wine is to the art of drinking”.
Alan Senderens
“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 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”.
“I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them”.
Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British Prime Minister. Said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king’s religion forbade smoking and alcohol. The Second World War, 1948-54