Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?

I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment.

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had with men have been over a cigar.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.