Life's Pleasures Quote by Dawn French

Chocolate here is less snack than strategy: Dawn French turns a private indulgence into a public bit, then doubles down until it becomes a persona you can practically market. The line starts as a “motto” - mock-heroic language for something gloriously unserious - and then escalates into a reveal about control. “Quite often I write the scripts” quietly shifts the joke from appetite to authorship. She’s not just eating chocolate on camera; she’s engineering a world where pleasure is written in, insisted on, defended with punchlines.

The subtext is body politics, but handled with a comedian’s sleight of hand. “Chocolate tart” is deliberately rude and self-flattering at once: a nudge toward sexual slang that deflates any moralism about women enjoying themselves. Then comes the killer tag: “It’s amazing I’m so slim.” It lands because it toys with the expectation that a woman must apologize for wanting food, or explain her body like it’s public property. French doesn’t apologize; she mocks the entire equation. The line reads as both brag and parody of bragging, a wink at the absurd scrutiny placed on women’s size, especially in television where bodies are treated like part of the contract.

Context matters: French’s career has long leaned on refusing polite femininity, making the “too much” - too loud, too hungry, too unapologetic - into a source of power. The chocolate isn’t just comfort; it’s defiance with a wrapper.