Demand Quote by Edith Wharton

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone…

— Anonymous

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

— Madeleine Vionnet

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the…

— Joseph Addison

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that…

— John Ruskin

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest…

— Eleanor Brown

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general,…

— Edmund Burke

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

— Joseph Chenier

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

— Baltasar Gracian