Taste Quotes
2906 Taste quotes by 1919 unique authors
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
— Phyllis Diller
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Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
— Patrick F. McManus
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
— Abigail Van Buren
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
— Coco Chanel
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear…
— H. Rider Haggard
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And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to…
— Thomas Keneally
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When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.
— Yukio Mishima
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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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
— A J Liebling
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Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
— David Sarnoff
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If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does…
— Shashi Tharoor
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way…
— Helmut Newton
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In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts…
— Ken Wilber
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One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something…
— Diana Vreeland
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If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard…
— Jacques-Louis David
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The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate,…
— Marion Woodman
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When a child's life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people, and places, he will learn. When he feels safe and loved, he'll…
— Sandra Dodd
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If it tastes good, spit it out!
— Jack LaLanne
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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