Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I think passion in a physical way goes hand in hand with taste and smell. — Ella Purnell Copy Share Image
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread! — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on… — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Cream—the richest, sweetest part of milk—is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life’s first freshness and innocence,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.” — storm constantine Copy Share Image
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music. — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
