Who said - "A woman only a woman - good cigar is a s moke" ?
This line from the second to last stanza of Kipling’s The Betrothed (1855) has often been removed from its context and re-purposed to mean “What does a woman count in relation to the manly pleasure of a good cigar?” Returned to its context in the poem as a whole, with its epigraph selected from an excerpt from the proceedings of a recent divorce trial, reading “You must choose between me and your cigar,” it’s pretty clear that Kipling was imagining the husband “responding” silently to his wife’s challenge, and was doing so tongue in cheek.
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