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Quotations about Chocolate
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. ~Jason Love, jasonlove.com
I can hear chocolate being unwrapped, somewhere. ~Dr. SunWolf, 2012 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
Chocolate is good for fighting flu-like symptoms, right? ~Keith Wynn, 2016
*Poof!* And just like that, there are now 3 fewer chocolate caramels in the world.
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love, jasonlove.com
Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,
And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop...
~Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), "The Tobacco Shop," edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith, 1998
I tell you... that girl is a young woman of remarkable strength of character... a girl of firmness and the courage of her convictions... she carried a box of candy home the other day without opening it. ~America, 1889
Walks to the kitchen for a glass of water. Comes back with a bowl of M&Ms. ~Keith Wynn, 2016
Tell us no more of weapon-salve,
But rather doom us to a grave,
For sure our wounds will ulcerate
Unless they're washt with Chocolate.
~Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, "A Curious Treatise of The Nature and Quality of Chocolate," 1631, translated from the Spanish by James Wadsworth, 1640
The girl born this month will flash like a streak of yellow sunshine... She will have poetry for breakfast, and spend the rest of the day on zephyrs and chocolate caramels. ~Josh Billings, "Horoskope for July," Farmer's Allminax for the Year of Our Lord 1872 [spelling standardized
...Its Virtue is so much,
That if a Lady get a touch,
Her grief it will extenuate,
If she but smell of Chocolate.
~Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, "A Curious Treatise of The Nature and Quality of Chocolate," 1631, translated from the Spanish by James Wadsworth, 1640
If some confectioner were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
Bitten into and returned to the box.
~Ogden Nash (1902–1971), "Assorted Chocolates"
'Twill make old women young and fresh,
Create new motions of the flesh,
And cause them long for you know what,
If they but taste of Chocolate.
~Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, "A Curious Treatise of The Nature and Quality of Chocolate," 1631, translated from the Spanish by James Wadsworth, 1640
The nut-brown Lasses of the Land,
Whom Nature vail'd in face and hand,
Are quickly beauties of high rate,
By one small draught of Chocolate.
~Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, "A Curious Treatise of The Nature and Quality of Chocolate," 1631, translated from the Spanish by James Wadsworth, 1640
The Doctor was trying to hide a box of candy under some papers on his desk.
Euphemia went on, "It was mainly your intellectual lapses (you know candy isn't good for you) that I came to see you today. You have been, since time immemorial, the distinguished and brilliant leader (heavens! They're chocolates!) of the conversations that are held in this library — a leader of profound judgment and intellect (if you must eat candy you should always get peppermint sticks) and moreover, yours is an intellect that ripens and enriches all it touches (I really believe they have marshmallow centres!) And yet, in spite of the undoubtedly high conversational tone you have steadily maintained, I notice, my dear Doctor, one lamentable lapse (there! you've got chocolate on your nose!) in many of your recent discourses. ~The Librarian, "The Quiet Corner," The Commonweal: A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs, 1928
...the last of all the colours I would wish to see there is chocolate-brown. The one drawback to chocolate is its colour. Charming to the taste, it is dull to the eye. One would never eat it if one did not know from experience that it tastes better than it looks. ~Robert Lynd, "The Chocolate Bus," Solomon in All His Glory, 1923
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is highly nourishing and easily digested, and is fitted to repair wasted strength, preserve health, and prolong life. It agrees with those whose occupations oblige them to undergo severe mental strains and with those who give to work a portion of the time needed for sleep. It soothes both stomach and brain, and for this reason, as well as for others, it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits. ~Justus, baron von Liebig (1803–1873) [a little altered
...a romantic attachment for chocolate-creams... ~Grant Allen
He was curled up in his papa chair, nibbling fudge and working the fat crossword puzzle in the Sunday New York Times. ~Sydney J. Harris, 1954
Easy as eating chocolate creams... ~John Kendrick Bangs, "The Magic Sled," Bikey the Skicycle, 1902
I like funny valentines and solemn ones, with paper frills all over and a little cupid peeping out from behind a tree. I like all kinds of valentines — red and yellow, blue and pink, and especially chocolate cream color. ~John Kendrick Bangs, "Jimmieboy's Valentine," Bikey the Skicycle, 1902 [Altered, quite.
Chocolate promises to make everything okay. ~Terri Guillemets
Relationship status: just undressed a candy bar with my eyes. ~Keith Wynn, 2017
Party on! Today's stress has been cancelled, courtesy of chocolate. ~Terri Guillemets
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