Famous Quotes - Tags - Taste

  • A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city. More
  • A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his... More
  • A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. More
  • A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral... More
  • A single dish cannot satisfy the tastes of a hundred people. More
  • Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should... More
  • Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. More
  • And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute... More
  • As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that... More
  • Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. More
  • Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. More
  • But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction... More
  • Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting... More
  • Comforted
    a solace of ripe plums
    seeming to fill the air
    They taste good to her More
  • Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility,... More
  • Dandyism is especially likely to appear in those transitional ages in which democracy is not yet... More
  • De gustibus non est disputandum;Mthat is, there is no disputing against HOBBY-HORSES; and, for my... More
  • Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. More
  • Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. More
  • Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. More
  • Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of... More
  • Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is... More
  • Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. More
  • For a long time I ... found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved... More
  • France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers... More
  • From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage’s... More
  • Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of... More
  • Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has... More
  • Hard is his lot, that here by Fortune plac’d,
    Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; More
  • Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me. More
  • He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be... More
  • I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is... More
  • I am not going to have 2,000 condoms hanging in my window. I don’t care what it represents. More
  • I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind:... More
  • I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies—thinking that those who care... More
  • I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I... More
  • I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good... More
  • I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me. More
  • I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste. More
  • In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy... More
  • It is conventional to call “monster” any blending of dissonant elements.... I call... More
  • It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons. More
  • It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth is the most sublime noise that has ever... More
  • Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses. More
  • Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a... More
  • Many of our German friends before the war would come as our guest to hunt wild pig. I refused to... More
  • Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. More
  • No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind. More
  • One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. More
  • One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned... More
  • One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding. More
  • Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. More
  • Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet’s work, but never yea to his... More
  • People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever... More
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. More
  • Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of... More
  • Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship’s sight. They, for their... More
  • Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a... More
  • Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. More
  • Taste is the common sense of genius. More
  • Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra... More
  • Taste is the only morality.... Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are. More
  • Taste is tiring like good company. More
  • Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. More
  • That Walt Whitman, of whom I wrote to you, is the most interesting fact to me at present. I have... More
  • The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no... More
  • The arbiter of taste. More
  • The difference between style and taste is never easy to define, but style tends to be centered on... More
  • The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high... More
  • The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference... More
  • The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass... More
  • The play, I remember, pleased not the million, ‘twas caviare
    to the general. More
  • The poet will prevail to be popular in spite of his faults, and in spite of his beauties too. He... More
  • There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our... More
  • There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is... More
  • There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. More
  • To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. More
  • Well, I’d certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste. More
  • What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. More
  • Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses—generally speaking, but also... More
  • You are to the Nineties what lava lamps were to the Seventies. More
  • “Everything in good taste”Mthe most vapid of slogans. More

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