Taste Quotes - Page 23

• He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Mouths, Flats

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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• How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Education, Wall, Order

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Matter

  "Charles Lamb: Selected Writings".

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• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Heart, Wine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

  William Hazlitt

  Improvement, Diffusion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Knows

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

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• The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Prosperity, Democratic, Well Being

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.30

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• What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God.

  Robert Brault

  God, Lying, Believe

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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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• Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Successful, Gardening, Wealth

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• I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Wish, Going Away, Radicalism

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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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• Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pleasure, Enjoy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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• He who tastes not, knows not.

  Rumi

  Experience, Knows

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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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• Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Artist, Beautiful Things

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.491, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
  May look wrinkled and wet
  And withered, and white as the snow,
  But the taste of a thumb
  Is the sweetest taste yet
  (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Snow, Looks

  Shel Silverstein, “Thumbs”

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• An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Should Have, Pardon, Audience

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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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• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Reflection, Quality, Television

  Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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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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