Taste Quotes - Page 33

• Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Society

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.71

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• Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Color, Water

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

  John Wilmot

  Excellence, Faults

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

  Aristotle

  Beast, Mass, Mankind

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1731, Princeton University Press

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• There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.

  Washington Irving

  Sweet, Strong, Selfish

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• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Truth Is

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, People, Morality

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• It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

  Samuel Richardson

  Bribe, Avarice

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.138

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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• If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Wine, Men

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  Alysia Reiner

  Daughter, News, Timing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt.

  Frank Iero

  Hate, Mushrooms, Names

  Source: circlesandsoundwaves.com

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• Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Smell, Four

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.356

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• There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Body, Goodness

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Effort, Century, Periods

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• Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

  David Hume

  Men, Understanding, Culture

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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• Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Prejudice, Reason

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.32

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• Every generation tailors history to its taste.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  History, Generations, Tailors

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Two, Fiction

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• It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

  Louise Bogan

  Crowns, Impossible, Rejects

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Smart, Keys, Definitions

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Life, Eye, Stones

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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