Mind Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mind Psychology Quality Taste
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one. — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. — Franco Moschino Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as the moon. With billions of anthers, shaking pollen like stars. It may seem strange, but in this boundless place --- You are not alone.” — Rich Shapero Copy Share
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not here trying to convince anybody to vote for Donald Trump. I think every Christian needs to make up his own mind about… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image