Taste Quotes
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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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
Paul Scofield
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You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country.
Regis Philbin
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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.
Simone Signoret
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Arsene Wenger
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Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
William Bernbach
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Jane Austen
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
George Shearing
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It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
Morton Gould
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The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.
Eliza Acton
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A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.
Eleanor Brown
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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.
Jane Austen
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
Bernard Berenson
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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A food's value is based on how good it tastes.
Homaro Cantu
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
Andre Chenier
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
Cathleen Schine
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To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
Willis Polk
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Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
Steve Jobs