Taste Quotes - Page 37

• To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Writing, Thinking, Soul

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• You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Luxury, Giving

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Order, Growth

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• Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Art, Army, Intellectual

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

  John Vanbrugh

  Friendship, Nice, Roots

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1970). “The relapse”

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• I don't know that I have a favorite meal. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about the person I'm feeding and I want to make them whatever they want. My husband's favorite meal is carbonara. I guess my favorite food is anything my mom makes. Because like anybody who loves their mother's cooking, if you try and make your mom's recipes, they never taste quite the same. And I don't know if that's because she's lying about what she's putting in there and just not telling me. Like when I turn my back, she's sneaking something in there. It just never seems to taste the same.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Husband

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". The Celebrity Cafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Art, Humble, Character

  Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318

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• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Food, Pale Yellow

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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• A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Conscious, Unconscious, Good Taste

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• If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Art, Children, Mind

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Passion, Genius, Delicacy

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.11

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• Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Reform, May, Changed

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.238

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• Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Organization, Soul, Emotion

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Irregularity, Occasions, Our Lives

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, People, May

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Coffee, Passing Away, Popularity

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• I pity those who have no taste for reading.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Pity

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• When you taste honey, remember gall.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honey, Remember, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Husband, Real, Gun

  James Tiptree Jr.'s letter, quoted in Julie Phillips "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon", 2006.

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• Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.

  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

  Love, Light, Cigar

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• Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Tests, Morality, Standards

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.123

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• I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Country, Opposites, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.100

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• Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

  Francois Fenelon

  Niceties, Rejects, Good Taste

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