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

"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright and critic)

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
Marquise de Sévigné (French writer and lady of fashion) February 11, 1677

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.
Sandra Bullock

[Chocolate is a] divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a while day without food.
Hernan Cortes

The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
Thomas Jefferson

Oh, divine chocolate!
They grind thee kneeling,
Beat thee with hands praying,
And drink thee with eyes to heaven.
Marco Antonio Orellana (18th century)

 

Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine.
Geronimo Piperni (1796) quoted by Antonio Lavedán, Spanish army surgeon, 1796

 

There is a kind of alchemy in the transformation of base chocolate into this wise fool’s gold.
Joanne Harris, Chocolat

 

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1775-1826, author of ‘Physiologie du gout’ – ‘The Physiology of Taste’, one of the most celebrated works on food