“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American cartoonist
A collection of quotes on the topic of chocolate, likeness, cake, eating.
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American cartoonist
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
“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Julie Newmar (1933) American actress
Female Power http://www.julienewmarwrites.com/story.php?idStory=122 (April 28, 2017)
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
Billy Graham (wrestler) (1943–2023) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
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
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) Uruguayan writer
As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 7
“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“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!
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk”
Christopher Moore book Coyote Blue
Source: Coyote Blue
“God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate.
Mrs. Miracle”
Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer
Source: Mrs. Miracle
Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer
Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: At Last
“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
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Lucky in Love
“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
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: At Last
“Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: School's Out—Forever
“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.”
Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?
Source: Remember Me?
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Forever and a Day
“Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: The Hanged Man
“It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Kiss of Death
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Boys "R" Us
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
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
“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
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Tanner's Scheme
“He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down
“The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.”
David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”
Helen Ellis (1950) American writer
Source: American Housewife
“He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.”
Laura Kinsale (1950) American writer
Source: Flowers from the Storm
“He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.”
Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels
Source: Strange Angels
Michael A. Jackson (1936) British computer scientist
Michael A. Jackson in: K. De Grave (ed.) Formalism & Intuition in Software Development; A conversation with Michael A. Jackson conducted by Edgar G. Daylight and Bas van Vlijmen. 2015
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).
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the fifth book, "The Book of the Exhibitionist"
The Pillow Book
Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
Song lyrics, Poses (2001)
Guy Browning (1964) British comedian
How to... Love, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges (2004).
Ray Nagin (1956) politician, businessman
Further explaining the previous remarks. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/ <br class="br">2006
Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 12
“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 <br class="br">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 (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Source: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 10.
Linda Smith (1958–2006) comedian
Packet of Three, Channel 4, 1991
Stand-up
Alan Coren (1938–2007) humorist and writer from the United Kingdom
"And Though They Do Their Best To Bring…".
The Sanity Inspector (1974)
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"
John Cleese (1939) actor from England
On Fresh Air with Terry Gross, promoting Fierce Creatures, which Cleese says is a satire about Rupert Murdoch's greed. (1997)