Mark Twain Cigar Quotes & Sayings

Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness. — Charles Baudelaire

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. — Mark Twain

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public. — Maria Monk

Sometimes you have to decide which will hurt more: biting your tongue or having your say. — Faydra D. Fields

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go. — Mark Twain

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

...a mad man has all the advantages on his side. — Agatha Christie

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works. — Mark Twain

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. — Mark Twain

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. — Frederick William Faber

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress. — Joyce Cary

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. — Mark Twain

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals. — Mark Twain

But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to. — Pseudonymous Bosch

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time. — Mark Twain

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. — Antonia Thomas

I told you to stay off that goddamn horse, but you wouldn't listen! And I paid the price for your stubbornness. For forty-three days I traveled through hell, wanting that woman like I've never wanted anything in my life. For forty-three days, I drew your goddamn brand in the dirt to remind myself that she belonged to you, that she deserved the best of men. Think what you want of me, but never for one goddamn minute think less of her because you forced her into my company.
-Houston to Dallas — Lorraine Heath

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain

He keeps looking at me so oddly."
"Oddly? How? Give me an imitation."
Considering that she had only about a second and a half to do it in, I must say it was a jolly fine exhibition. She opened her mouth and eyes pretty wide and let her jaw drop sideways, and managed to look so like a dyspeptic calf that I recognized the symptoms immediately.
"Oh, that's all right," I said. "No need to be alarmed. He's simply in love with you. — P.G. Wodehouse

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars ... within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch. — Mark Twain

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go. — Mark Twain

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument. — Nigel Lawson

I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life. — Caroline Green

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house. — Mark Twain