taste quotes

• Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. (Ambrose Bierce) [taste/more]
• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. (George Santayana) [religion/taste/human/pleasure]
• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. (Wystan Auden) [taste/opinion]
• We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille) [taste/happiness/perfection/sadness]
• 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) [taste/taste/power]
• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. (John Donne) [taste]
• What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. (Jean Dubuffet) [culture/taste/anonymous/culture]
• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. (Marcel Duchamp) [order/taste]
• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition. (Umberto Eco) [imagination/taste/past/philosophy]
• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (George Eliot) [difference/taste]
• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. (George Eliot) [bad/taste]
• Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/taste]
• There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/imagination/taste]
• Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [taste/willpower/rest/willpower]
• A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. (Oliver Goldsmith) [taste/willpower/fool/housing]
• Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. (William Hazlitt) [taste/pleasure/imagination]
• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. (Thomas Hood) [human/taste/being]
• In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. (Thomas Jefferson) [taste]
• Taste cannot be controlled by law. (Thomas Jefferson) [taste/right]
• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. (Samuel Johnson) [taste/slave/appetite/future]
• Taste may change, but inclination never. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [taste/change]
• Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [taste/taste/taste]
• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. (Margaret Mead) [question/taste/food/find]
• Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. (John Milton) [taste]
• Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. (Malcolm Muggeridge) [taste]
• All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [life/taste]
• The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. (Pablo Picasso) [creativity/taste]
• Taste is the enemy of creativeness. (Pablo Picasso) [taste]
• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. (Pablo Picasso) [taste/thing/taste]
• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [teach/give/taste]
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. (William Shakespeare) [taste/death]

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