Quotes about chocolate

A collection of quotes on the topic of chocolate, likeness, cake, eating.

Quotes about chocolate

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Fernando Pessoa photo

“Eat your chocolates, little girl,
Eat your chocolates!
Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,
And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop.
Eat, dirty little girl, eat!
If only I could eat chocolates with the same truth as you!
But I think and, removing the silver paper that's tinfoil,
I throw it all on the ground, as I've thrown out life.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Come chocolates, pequena;
Come chocolates!
Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates.
Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria.
Come, pequena suja, come!
Pudesse eu comer chocolates com a mesma verdade com que comes!
Mas eu penso e, ao tirar o papel de prata, que é de folhas de estanho,
Deito tudo para o chão, como tenho deitado a vida.
Tabacaria (1928), trans. Richard Zenith

Vladimir Nabokov photo
Fernando Pessoa photo

“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Cassandra Clare photo
Gabriel Iglesias photo

“The first time I came here, I got the chance to meet some people, and they said, "You know what, Gabriel, have you ever been here, have you ever been to Chicago?" I'm like, "No, it's my first time." They said, "Well, you know, we'd like to take you out eat if you're down." And I'm like, "Well, hello!" [Audience laughs] "I'm very down!" They took me to a restaurant called Portillo's." [Audience cheers] You've heard of it? So, we get there, and it was, it was very, very good. The hot dogs were delicious, I had a chicken chopped salad, it was amazing. I had a beef dip, really really good. But it wasn't until the meal was almost over that these new friends of mine said, "We'd like for you to try something you've might not have ever had before." And I'm like, "That's not likely." I said, "So, what is it you want me to try?" And they said, "Well, they sell a thing here at Portillo's called a Chocolate Cake Shake." [Audience cheers] I said, "You had me at 'Chocolate'." They said, "Well, you gotta go to the special window and you gotta order it from the lady." I go, "Okay, cool." So, I get up and walk to the lady, and she's like, "Can I help you?" I said, "Yes, my friends are telling me that I need to try this thing, called a 'Chocolate Cake Shake'." "Okay, what size would you like?" "How good is it?" "You'll want a large." [Audience laughs] "Alright, can I please have a large Chocolate Cake Shake?" "No problem." [Imitates her entering the order in on the cash register] And I pay, and she turns around and walks over to this little refrigerator that's on the counter, and she opens it up, and she pulls out a piece of chocolate cake. And I'm thinking to myself, "She must have misunderstood what I said. I didn't ask for a piece of chocolate cake, I asked for a Chocolate Cake Shake." She must've heard what I was thinking, because she's walking by and she's like, "It's gonna happen." She walks over to the blender, she takes the freaking lid off, she just looks at me and does this. [Mimes the cashier turning her hand over, dropping the chocolate cake in the blender] And I was like, "NO!" And she's like, "Oh, yeah." [Mimes the lady pushing the button and the blender blending the cake] And she pours it, and she hands me this, like, 44-ounce chocolate shake, which is WAY more than anybody should be drinking. The straw was so thick, you could almost put your thumb in it, okay? So, I grab this shake, and I begin to attempt to drink it. So, I'm [Mimics him trying to suck the shake through the straw, making heavy "MMM" sounds], and I can see the shake coming up. [Still makes the "MMM" sounds, while using his finger to show how show the shake's coming up the straw] And it hit, and then, all of a sudden, [Mimics his nipples getting hard] "WOOOOO!"”

Gabriel Iglesias (1976) American actor

I'm Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)

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Jani Allan photo

“The happy-go-lucky barefoot kid who loved rugby, ice-cream-and-hot-chocolate sauce, staying at home for a braai and the flieks grew up into an international rubgy player, idol of millions and South African cult figure…”

Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster

Description of Naas Botha from her interview with Botha published in the Just Jani column of the Sunday Times, republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.
Sunday Times

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“I lift barbell plates. I eat T-bone steaks. I'm sweeter than a German chocolate cake. How much more of me can you take?”

Billy Graham (wrestler) (1943–2023) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder

Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)

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“Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

Quote of Claude Monet (1909), as cited in: Sarah Walden (1985) The ravished image, or, How to ruin masterpieces by restoration, p. 67
1900 - 1920

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“As the owners of heaven forbade chocolate to mortals, so the owners of earth forbade it to commoners.”

Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) Uruguayan writer

As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 7

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“The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!”

Terry Moore (1929) actress

Variant: The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

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Anne Lamott photo

“He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

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“God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate.
Mrs. Miracle”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

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“The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“Nothing heals the soul like chocolate… It's God's apology for broccoli.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Variant: Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli
Source: The Sunflower

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Joanne Harris photo

“Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Lucky in Love

Charlaine Harris photo

“Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Source: Dead Over Heels

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James Patterson photo
Connie Willis photo
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Dave Barry photo
Sophie Kinsella photo

“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: At Last

James Patterson photo

“Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Sophie Kinsella photo

“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.”

Source: Remember Me?

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“Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Hanged Man

Chetan Bhagat photo
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“It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

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James Patterson photo

“What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

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“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

Mem Fox (1946) Australian academic and children's writer known for picture books

Source: Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

Joanne Harris photo

“Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Cornelia Funke photo

“Come to the Dark Side.
We have chocolate.”

Cheyenne McCray (1965) writer

Source: Demons Not Included

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William Goldman photo
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“He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.”

Source: A Long Way Down

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Frank O'Hara photo
Jim Butcher photo
Jenny Han photo
Winston Groom photo

“Life is like a box of chocolates.”

Source: Gump and Co.

Jenny Han photo
David Sedaris photo

“The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

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“I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”

Helen Ellis (1950) American writer

Source: American Housewife

Annette Curtis Klause photo

“He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.”

Laura Kinsale (1950) American writer

Source: Flowers from the Storm

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“Google was not a normal place at all. There was just all kinds of weird stuff going on. I would just walk around and check stuff out like the kid in Willy Wonka going around the chocolate factory.”

Biz Stone (1974) American blogger; co-founder of Twitter

“'Google was Not a Normal Place': Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company That Changed Everything” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/valley-of-genius-excerpt-google, in Vanity Fair (10 July 2018).

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Peter Greenaway photo
Rufus Wainwright photo

“Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings
Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker
A little bit harmful for me.”

Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
Song lyrics, Poses (2001)

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“New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive?”

Ray Nagin (1956) politician, businessman

Further explaining the previous remarks. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/
2006

Fenella Fielding photo

“I can remember what I ate. Coconut squares dipped in chocolate, wrapped in gold paper.”

Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) English actress

Her recollections of her father's cinema
Interview: Independent, Sunday 24 February 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-lady-vanishes-what-ever-happened-to-fenella-fielding-785265.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe photo

“Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.”

Alan Coren (1938–2007) humorist and writer from the United Kingdom

"And Though They Do Their Best To Bring…".
The Sanity Inspector (1974)

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“There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!”

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"

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