Taste Quotes

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

Rachel Kushner

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Pauline Kael

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

George Ade

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

M. J. De Chenier

Everyone to his taste.

French proverb

My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.

Victor Hugo

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

Napoleon

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

Poincelot

The finer impulse of our nature.

Friedrich von Schiller

Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

John Heywood

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dalí

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward FitzGerald

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.

Queen Marie of Rumania

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

Charles Lamb

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

Harold Holzer

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.

Frank Zappa

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

Tim Gunn

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

Jacqueline Carey

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

Manel Loureiro

Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?

M.F. Moonzajer

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Increase is so natural that it starts from before we taste the first breath of life at birth

Sunday Adelaja

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

Thomm Quackenbush

The taste of moon's song.

Cameron Conaway

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

Munia Khan

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Jennifer Donnelly

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of individualized style: instead it confirms the latent uniform collectivity, which had always defined Chanel-wear; in the end, it signifies membership of an expensive club. The Chanel woman does not want to display her own taste, she wants to belong. In order to be certain, she is laden with Chanel signs and accessories, like amulets to protect against the evil eye; on the pocket, on the belt, on the dress buttons, on the watch, on costume jewelry, proudly stand the initials of the founder of the house, to which she knows she belongs.

Barbara Vinken

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

Georges Bizet

Taste is a mystery.

Daniel Mendelsohn

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Janeane Garofalo

Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.

Sy Montgomery

revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste.

Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Brigid Lowry

Do you feel it?Do you taste it??...That's going to be awesome nightmare!

Deyth Banger

If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth.

Deyth Banger

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Kevin Barry

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

Anthony T.Hincks

When you kiss me,your lips upon mine,your kisses taste so sweet,just like a glass of good wine.

Anthony T.Hincks

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if I'd discovered something I'd never tasted before in my short life. Or rediscovered it - for I associated it with the taste of water that came out of the well, accompanied with the ring of that long metal sleeve against the sides of the living mountain, as from deep down it was wound up to view brimming and streaming long drops behind it like bright stars on a ribbon. It thrilled me to drink from the common dipper. The coldness, the far, unseen, unheard springs of what was in my mouth now, the iron smell, all said mountain mountain mountain as I swallowed. Every swallow was making me a part of being here, sealing me in place, with my bare feet planted on the mountain and sprinkled with my rapturous spills. What I felt I'd come here to do was something on my own.

Eudora Welty

Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at the graven images of Raphael and Shakespeare almost before I knew their names; and long before I saw anything funny in their figures being carved, on a smaller scale, under the feet of Prince Albert. I even took a certain childish pleasure in the gilding of the canopy and spire, as if in the golden palace of what was, to Peter Pan and all children, something of a fairy garden. So do the Christians of Jerusalem take pleasure, and possibly a childish pleasure, in the gilding of a better palace, besides a nobler garden, ornamented with a somewhat worthier aim. But the point is that the people of Kensington, whatever they might think about the Holy Sepulchre, do not think anything at all about the Albert Memorial. They are quite unconscious of how strange a thing it is; and that simply because they are used to it. The religious groups in Jerusalem are also accustomed to their coloured background; and they are surely none the worse if they still feel rather more of the meaning of the colours. It may be said that they retain their childish illusion about their Albert Memorial. I confess I cannot manage to regard Palestine as a place where a special curse was laid on those who can become like little children. And I never could understand why such critics who agree that the kingdom of heaven is for children, should forbid it to be the only sort of kingdom that children would really like; a kingdom with real crowns of gold or even of tinsel. But that is another question, which I shall discuss in another place; the point is for the moment that such people would be quite as much surprised at the place of tinsel in our lives as we are at its place in theirs. If we are critical of the petty things they do to glorify great things, they would find quite as much to criticise (as in Kensington Gardens) in the great things we do to glorify petty things. And if we wonder at the way in which they seem to gild the lily, they would wonder quite as much at the way we gild the weed.

G.K. Chesterton

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

Criss Jami

Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.

LEONORA MORRISON

The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.

T.F. Hodge

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

P.J. O'Rourke

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

David Hume

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

Lisa Marie Perry

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

John Ciardi

All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal.

Ravindra Shukla

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