Taste And Judgment Quotes

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Luck, Crafts

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Speak, Microscopes, Taste

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• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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• Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Use

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

  W. H. Auden

  Perseverance, Book, Believe

  "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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• First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

  Harold Ramis

  Goes On, Firsts, Hell

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• A man of refined taste and judgment.

  Horace

  Men, Taste, Refined

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• Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

  Horace Walpole

  Pain, Criticism, Quality

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• Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.

  Leopold Auer

  Errors, Play, Musical

  Leopold Auer (1960). “Violin Playing as I Teach it”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Character, Exercise

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