If you love reading and have a sweet tooth, then you will love these 10 literary quotes about chocolate.

1. “Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.”—Jo Brand

2. “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

3. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”—Charles M. Schulz

4. “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”—Joanne Harris, Chocolat

5. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”—Linda Grayson

6. “Chocolate says ‘I’m sorry’ so much better than words.”—Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Save

7. “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”—Fernando Pessoa

8. “The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare… neither knew chocolate.”—Sandra Boynton

9. “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.”—Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc

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

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