Taste Quotes - Page 2

• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152

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• Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Truffles, Certain, Knows

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• Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Moral, Species, Bad Taste

  "They Shoot Footage, Don’t They?" by Ellen Leventry, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves.

  Alexander Pope

  Sublime, Intelligence, Genius

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• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Reality, Art Is

  Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr

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• Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Law, Creative

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Taste And Judgment, Speak, Microscopes

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• There is no disputing about taste.

  Edmund Spenser

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• Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, People, Visuals

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Food, Men

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• There is no accounting for tastes.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Accounting

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.297

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• Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Differences, Titles, Watches

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

  Robert Boyle

  Sex, Strange, Should

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• Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Two, Mind, Faces

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Shirley, a standish and two pens. A fragment of an unpublished satire of Pope intitled One thousand seven hundred and forty. The plan of an epic poem, to have been written in blank verse, and intitled Brutus. Preface to Homer's Iliad. Postscript to the Odyssey”, p.255

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• Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies
  From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Ears, Eternal

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.466, Delphi Classics

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• We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Degrees, Fields

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

  Henry Adams

  Travel, Inches, Carrie

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 12

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• A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, Men, Common Sense

  Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar"

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  Salvador Dali

  Creativity, Design, Creative

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• To possess taste, one must have some soul.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Soul

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Excuse, Bad Life

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Literature, Pleasure

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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