Taste Quotes
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The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
Tobias Smollett
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In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.
Milarepa
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Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.
Brad Moore
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She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.
Brian Falkner
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Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.
Michael Mina
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A taste for natural enquiries is not only useful in the highest degree, but a neverfailing source of the most exalted enjoyment; a more rational pleasure cannot possibly occupy the attention or captivate the affections of mankind, than that which arises from a due consideration of the works of nature.
Charles Willson Peale
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I’ve been starvin’ for another taste. Like a dog, you got me on a leash. I’ve been barkin’ at your feet. One more bite is all I need.
Jesse Rutherford
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
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'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Charles Dickens
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Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Tracy Chevalier
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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.
Lord Byron
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I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy.
Art Smith
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Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
C. S. Lewis
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Baltasar Gracian
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Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
Curnonsky
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Lois Wyse
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
Baltasar Gracian
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My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
Rod Stewart
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I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like Fargo.
Courteney Cox
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.
Eric Maisel
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I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.
Monica Lewinsky