Taste Quotes · Page 85

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

— Joshua Reynolds

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

— Voltaire

Introducing Tac-os! It's meat, cheese, and lettuce flavored O's in a tortilla bowl... it even makes the milk taste like tacos!

— Harry Styles

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

— Riyad Mahrez

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were…

— Edith Wharton

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly…

— Mark Lawrence

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in…

— Virginia Postrel

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty…

— Pope Leo XII

No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image…

— Anonymous

Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic.…

— Denis Johnston

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a…

— Stephen Bayley

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand…

— Franz Grillparzer

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really…

— David Walliams

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you…

— Rumi

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this…

— Anonymous

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of…

— Seneca the Younger

Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do…

— Thomas Merton

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret…

— C. S. Lewis

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…

— John Herschel

Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start…

— Anonymous

“Of course, my pops put chili oil in it immediately, but I wanted to taste the broth: intense, deep, and mind-numbing. It…

— Eddie Huang

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and…

— Henri Nouwen

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

— Nancy Lancaster

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable…

— August Bournonville

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

— Jonathan Demme

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.

— Drake

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in…

— Aaron Huey

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

— Margaret Atwood

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

— Mel Brooks

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

— John Adams

Life like a good bottle of wine doesn't last forever, sip it and savour the taste.

— Harry Lewis

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like…

— James Bertolino

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!

— Nargis Fakhri

Trying to explain what community is to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to explain what an artichoke tastes like.

— Dion DiMucci

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn…

— Rene Redzepi

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

— George Herbert