Taste Quotes - Page 8

• We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, People, Age

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• Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Habit, Natural

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• He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Chance

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ordinary, Mundane, Accustomed

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Mouths, Flats

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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• Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Balance, Moral

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Education, Wall, Order

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Matter

  "Charles Lamb: Selected Writings".

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Firsts, Vices

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Essence

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Heart, Wine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Winter, Giving

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.109, University of Missouri Press

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• The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

  William Hazlitt

  Improvement, Diffusion

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Knows

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

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• The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

  Max Lerner

  Democracy, Bitter, Fullness

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• Money? I lost all taste for it.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Lost

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• The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Prosperity, Democratic, Well Being

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.30

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• What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God.

  Robert Brault

  God, Lying, Believe

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• As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

  Martin Yan

  Thinking, Long, Chinese

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• Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

  Rachel Kadish

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

  Seneca the Younger

  Apples, Decline, Sweetest

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• Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Religion

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Good Man, Style, Together

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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