In honor of National Chocolate Day, here are 6 great literature quotes about chocolates
(Gathered by Regina Kenney)
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power…it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.”
― Justus von Liebig
“You know, they’ve got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don’t like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don’t like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to
polish these off, and everything’ll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
― Fernando Pessoa
“If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.”
― Wilkie Collins, I Say No