Taste Quotes - Page 25

• The taste forever refines in the study of women.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Women, Forever, Study

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.363

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• Taste the joy
  That springs from labor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Joy, Labor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.35

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• The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, Appetite, Acquired Taste

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

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• Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Men, Intellect

  "The Characters, Or, the Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Nicholas Rowe and Theophrastus (Chapter V), 1688.

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• The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Soul, Dupes

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Moral, Journalism, Should

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• High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Appreciate, Lines, Firsts

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

  Anais Nin

  Hands, Identity, Coats

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• We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Essence, Ideas, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.190

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• Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Skills, Drones, Honey

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, World, Study

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 605-09, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Vers de Société, 1922.

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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Tongue, Firsts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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• I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.

  Phyllis Diller

  Radio, Dinner, Tvs

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• 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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• You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eggs, Criticism, Knows

  "Pauline Kael Slams Anti-Feminist Critics in Glorious Vintage Radio Broadcast" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. November 24, 2015.

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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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• Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

  Lois Wyse

  Power

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• ... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

  Edith Wharton

  Consonants

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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• Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Different, Pursuit

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• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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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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• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Children, Father, Son

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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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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