Active Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Anonymous

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

— Hugh Blair

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, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

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, 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

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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