Abandon Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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 literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

“Taste—as in personal preference, discernment—is subjective. It’s ephemeral, shaped by trends and fads. It’s one part mouth and nose, two parts ego. Even flavors…

— Mary Roach

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of…

— Edith Wharton

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

— Joshua Reynolds

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a…

— Thomas Carlyle

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