Some famous characters like writers, leaders, actors among others were or are big cigar fanatics. So much so that many of them were inspired by it and created memorable and now our favourite cigar quotes. Today we wanted to make a compilation of the best quotes about cigars and tobacco, said by famous people in the world. Here you can read some of the ones we found, but if you have some that are not and you want to share it with us.
“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
"Maybe it's like being one with the cigarette, you lose yourself in it, everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke and the cigarette and are at peace." Raul Julia
“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
“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. (He said that 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)
“A good Havana is one of the best pleasures I know”. Somerset Maugham
"Of the smokers we can learn tolerance. I still do not know one who has complained about non-smokers" . Alessandro Pertini
"Say what Aristotle says and all philosophy, there is nothing comparable to tobacco ... Who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live". Molière
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