Culture Quote by Robert Graves

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your…

— Grayson Perry

The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people…

— Margaret Cho

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from…

— Manuel Puig

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation…

— M. F. K. Fisher

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never…

— Richard Powers

Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food.…

— Joel Robuchon

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

— Anonymous

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

— Confucius

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst…

— Chuck Palahniuk