Taste Quotes - Page 6

• Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

  John Ruskin

  Ethics, Morality

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 2 (1866)

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• I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

  Bill Gates

  Drinking, Glasses, Water

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Curiosity, Mind

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Joy, Abstinence, Virtuous

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• Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Different, Superiors

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• Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Flower, May, Bees

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• Taste my tuna casserole - tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.

  Woody Allen

  Hot, Tuna, Fudge

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• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  Zhang Yimou

  Audience, Western, Knows

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• As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Spoons, Pot

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• The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Causes, Judgment, Defects

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.19

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• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

  Tertullian

  Baby, Taken, Angel

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• People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

  Samuel Butler

  Fashion, Clever, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Building Up, Differences

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Ambition, Goal

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• Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Truth

  Quoted in John Robert Columbo, Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

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• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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• An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mind, Excellence

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

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• There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like American cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I'll watch Pokemon or bad 80s cartoons.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Feelings, Cartoon, Pokemon

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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