Taste Quotes - Page 36

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Views, Mind, Body

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In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Art, Imagination, Grace

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Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Fashion, Seems, Load

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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Blood, Age, Youth

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We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship, Perfect, Preference

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A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thinking, Light, Clothes

"Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Judgment, Good Taste

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Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Renounce, Interest

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Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness, Men, Thinking

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A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy, Republic, Pleasure

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

Baron de Montesquieu

Fashion, Art, Spring

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The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

Carl Jung

Attitude, Intellectual, Monsters

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens

Walter Scott

Kings, Wine, People

Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

Lord Chesterfield

Love Is, Thinking, Self

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.110

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Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

Lord Chesterfield

Running, Drinking, Loss

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A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fashion, Simplicity, Gentleman

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Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Growing Up, Culture, Common

"Economics As A Moral Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, in "American Economic Review", 59 (1), (p. 12), March 1969.

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One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

E. M. Forster

Book, Pudding, Literature

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Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

W. H. Auden

Jobs, Work, Men

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My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Father, Adventure, Twenties

"The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

W. S. Gilbert

Writing, Years, Play

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In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.

Lydia M. Child

Men, Long, Wife

"An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

Willa Cather

Book, Men, Air

Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

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Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

B. C. Forbes

Running, Selfish, Home

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On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

V. S. Pritchett

Order, Giving, Use

"The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 29), 1980.

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