Taste Quotes

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

  Max D. Adams

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Mets

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Fashion, Funny Inspirational

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• Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

  Charles Bukowski

  Millionaire, Good Taste, Bad Taste

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.94, Canongate Books

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• A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Nice, Inspiration

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• The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

  Susan Sontag

  Worst Case Scenario, Needs, Disaster

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• Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

  Pema Chodron

  Unique, Meditation, Together

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• We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  World, Forget, Hunger

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

  Fernand Point

  Cooking, Variation, Delight

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• Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Imagination, Entertainment, Rejecting

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.294

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• There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

  Steven Spielberg

  Responsibility, Lines, Moral

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• Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,
  Be it in music, painting, or in song:
  But this, as well as other faculties,
  Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

  John Armstrong

  Song, Rude, Age

  John Armstrong (1770). “Miscellanies;”, p.129

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

  Daniel Levitin

  Flavor, Mouths, Tongue

  Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.36, Penguin

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• Taste is the feminine of genius.

  Lord Edward FitzGerald

  Genius, Definitions, Feminine

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• Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Fashion, Aspect

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.73

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• An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humorous, Profound, Ego

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  Victor Hugo

  Action, Democratic, Aristocratic

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• A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

  Jessamyn West

  Lost Love, Heart, Humor

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

  Arnold Bennett

  Character, Good Taste, Bad Taste

  1930 In the Evening Standard, 21 Aug.

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• There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nice, Simple, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.29, David M Gross

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• Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Country, Ocean

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

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• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School, Danger

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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