Bruno D'Arcy
All Because the Lady Loves Aphorisms
1. There are images enough in a single chocolate to sustain a thousand reveries.
2. And whether they are square, conical or triangular, it is in the nature of chocolates that they will go round.
3. Naturally, a chocolate would rather be a million than a mullion.
4. A chocolate is a frame of mind with some sweetness in it.
5. If a chocolate is a symbol it can also be a clash of cymbals.
6. Like a woman looking at a man with amorous intent, some chocolates are tasted with the whole heart, the whole mind and the whole body.
7. ‘Chocolates’ may not rhyme with many other words but many rhymes are other words for chocolates.
8. The unmanifest is never more tangible than when there is an absence of chocolates.
9. A chocolate is a heartbeat falling in love.
10. Or say that a chocolate, like love, is tentative at the beginning, exquisite in the middle, and endless at the end.
11. If it’s good enough to be true it’s good enough to be a chocolate.
12. In the astronomy of gastronomy all the stars are chocolates.
13. Ah, the tempting tintinnabulation of chocolates.
14. A chocolate as dark as night can make your day.
15. To say that chocolates are addictive is to understate the matter. They are positively alluring.
16. I thought I saw an open box of chocolates but it was only a box of jewellery.
17. A chocolate is the apotheosis of a cocoa bean.
18. The formula for chocolates is one more than the one before.
19. Chocolates are the keyholes through which we get glimpses of heaven.
20. If you are looking for an occasion to have chocolates, provide the chocolates and you have found the occasion.
21. Half a chocolate is often a whole pleasure.
22. Life should be one long series of chocolates occasionally punctuated with chocolates.
23. Cupid’s quiver is content to be empty of arrows when it is full of chocolates.
24. Fullness is an empty box of chocolates.
25. And the greatest of all skills is in knowing how to protract a chocolate.
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