"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
— Dave Barry

"Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good."
— Lora Brody

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate."
— Jo Brand

"Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man."
— Miranda Ingram

"He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration."
— Michael Pollan

"Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain."
— Dave Barry

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt."
— Judith Olney

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate."
— Katharine Hepburn

"As with most fine things, chocolate has its season....Any month whose name contains the letter a,e, or us is the proper time for chocolate."
— Sandra Boynton

"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate."
— Sandra Boynton

"Flowers wilt, jewelry tarnishes, and candles burn out...but chocolate doesn't hang around long ehough to get old."
— Sr. Cocoa Loca

"Chocolate is like my best friend and the most intense pleasure at the same time, perhaps not the most intense, but the most regular and reliable one."
— Chloe Doutre-Roussel

"Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love."
— Karl Petzke and Sara Slavin

"'When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern."
— Adrianne Marcus

"Each time I tell myself it's the last time, but then I get a whiff of hot chocolate."
— Luc Clairmont

"Mary: Oh Rhoda, chocolate doesn't solve anything.

Rhoda: NO Mare, cottage cheese solves nothing;chocolate can do it all!"
— The Mary Tyler Moore Show

"It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita"
— Laura Esquivel

"She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by herself in the kitchen, rather than let it be thrown away. When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it. It was as if they were rejecting that stuffed pepper, which contains every imaginable flavor; sweet as candied citron, juicy as pomegranate, with the bit of pepper and the subtlety of walnuts, that marvelous chile in the walnut sauce. Within it lies the secret of love, but it will never be penetrated, and all because it wouldn't feel proper. "
— Laura Esquivel

"Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds."
— Steve Almond (Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America)

"It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. "
— Laura Esquivel

"Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour. "
— Laura Esquivel

"Oh, divine chocolate!
They grind thee kneeling,
Beat thee with hands praying,
And drink thee with eyes to heaven."
— Marco Antonio Orellana