Taste Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Education, People, Acquisition

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1852). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.206

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• You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Son, Simple, Higher Ground

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

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• If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Character, Mind Love, Solitude

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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Facts, Insult

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

  Henry Martyn

  Beautiful, Art, Pride

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• While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen.

  Jo Coudert

  Hands, Kitchen, Looks

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• I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Artist, Musical, Wide

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• things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sweat, Cost, Salt

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Jealousy, Pits, Flavor

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• I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Sports, Meat, Hunts

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• Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  Marvin Shanken

  Strong, Scotch, Cuban Cigars

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• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  Carla Hall

  People, Kitchen, Tables

  "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.

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• In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Football, Wine, Feelings

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• The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, May, Clergymen

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mind, Religion

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• Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
  And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
  Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
  One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Lines, Chaos, Fit

  Alexander Pope (1711). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.18

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• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  Ruth Negga

  People, Want, Awful

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