Taste Quotes · Page 77

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym -…

— Isla Fisher

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

— Celeste Ng

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing…

— Angela Carter

I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

— Bridget Everett

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the…

— Anonymous

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

— Sarah Kay

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray…

— Lionel Shriver

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and…

— Gregory Maguire

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of…

— Eliza Lynn Linton

There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of…

— William Shakespeare

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere…

— Erich Fromm

The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new…

— George Polya

Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts…

— A. O. Scott

The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They…

— Warren G. Bennis

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical…

— Peter Cheeke

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You…

— Lord Chesterfield

“I pick up my teaspoon and take a small bite, and am transported. The cake is nutty and moist, the cream with…

— Stacey Ballis

Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is…

— Alphonsus Liguori

There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or…

— Wright Morris

“There is nothing that is not beautiful about bread. The way it grows, from tiny grains, from bowls on the counter, from…

— Eleanor Brown

Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit…

— Friedrich Accum

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels…

— Michael Chabon

“I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don't want to swagger,…

— Henry James

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

— Jeff Goldblum

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

— David Hume

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

— Edmund Burke

Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.

— Doug Rice

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

— William Butler Yeats

I actually really love the taste of a very sugary coffee; I'm one of those folks who is like, 'I would like…

— Bob the Drag Queen

“All he wanted was to somehow get there, and taste that joy which everyone but him seemed to be experiencing.”

— Christina McKenna

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

— Stephen Potter

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

— William Shakespeare

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the…

— Bertolt Brecht

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

— Sonam Kapoor

Without tasting the worst situation, No one can taste The Best Thing Of Life... Dare to face Anything in Your Mysterious Life.

— Pacifiersucker

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

— David Rockefeller

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

— Henry Adams