Taste Quotes - Page 9

• Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Successful, Gardening, Wealth

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• I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Wish, Going Away, Radicalism

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• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Men, People

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.266

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• Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pleasure, Enjoy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Salt, Bread

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• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Imagination

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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• He who tastes not, knows not.

  Rumi

  Experience, Knows

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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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• In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Two, Wheels

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• Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Artist, Beautiful Things

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.491, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Food, Sauce, Bread

  Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (2002). “The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Peculiar, Purses, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
  May look wrinkled and wet
  And withered, and white as the snow,
  But the taste of a thumb
  Is the sweetest taste yet
  (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Snow, Looks

  Shel Silverstein, “Thumbs”

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

  Herb Caen

  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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• An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Should Have, Pardon, Audience

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• The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Juxtaposition, Surrealist, Quotations

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

  Jean Genet

  Stars, Flower, Order

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

  Abe Burrows

  Humor, Able, Teach

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• The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Book, Car

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• For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

  Russell Lynes

  Mirrors, Television, Flexibility

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• In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

  Russell Lynes

  Guarded, Estimation, Good Taste

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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