This is the first in our series of cigar quotes and references from literature. Leading the pack is the classic adventurer, man of science, and famed curmudgeon; Professor George E. Challenger, the driving force behind Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel The Lost World. He may not have respected a single one of his academic peers, but he knew how to handle a cigar.
“The Professor closed the door carefully behind us, motioned me into an arm-chair, and pushed a cigar-box under my nose. — “Real San Juan Colorado,” he said. “Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics. Heavens! don’t bite it! Cut—and cut with reverence!””
Professor George Edward Challenger
The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
