Taste Quotes
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good 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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Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
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Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
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The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
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Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
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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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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
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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.
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A food's value is based on how good it tastes.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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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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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.
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Taste is so much more important than fashion.
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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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Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
