Taste Quotes - Page 13

• Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

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• Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Creative, Genius, Feels

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• Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Weaving, Sand

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.96, University of Georgia Press

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• Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vices, Stories, Half

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• John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

  Robert Burns

  Hero, Men, Blood

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.207

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• The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

  Max Lerner

  Democracy, Bitter, Fullness

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• Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

  Rachel Kadish

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

  Seneca the Younger

  Apples, Decline, Sweetest

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• Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Religion

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Good Man, Style, Together

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Men, People

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.266

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Salt, Bread

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• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Imagination

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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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• In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Two, Wheels

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• Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Food, Sauce, Bread

  Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (2002). “The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Juxtaposition, Surrealist, Quotations

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

  Jean Genet

  Stars, Flower, Order

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

  Roman Abramovich

  Children, Differences, Childhood

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  Barbra Streisand

  Smell, Avocados, Indescribable

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Food, Pork, Needs

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• I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

  Douglas Coupland

  Docks, Trouble, Seafood

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