George Sand Quotes

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren't so formal.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

Polo is about the aspirational lifestyle of the sporty person, on and off the field.

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

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

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

It's my favorite thing to do: luxurious nothing.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

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

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

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

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

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

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.