Taste Quotes

2906 Taste quotes by 1919 unique authors

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
To possess taste, one must have some soul. — Luc de Clapiers
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. — Edith Sitwell
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent… — Susan Sontag
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon… — Henry David Thoreau
And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere. — Ken Wilber
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise. — Jason Segel
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never… — Oscar Wilde
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. — George Santayana
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. — Joseph Joubert
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. — Thorstein Veblen
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. — Marilyn Monroe
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… — George Santayana
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. — Miles Kington
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. — George Bernard Shaw
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what… — Pema Chodron
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Isaac Asimov

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