Taste Quotes
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If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
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Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'
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I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
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To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
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Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
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I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Hospitality and cooking are my passion, and I love nothing more than seeing someone's face when they taste an unforgettable bite.
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I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
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Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
