quotes about Taste
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Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
-- A. J. LieblingSource : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
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Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.
-- Abbi Glines -
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 -
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An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
-- Abigail Padgett -
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
-- Adam Brody -
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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
-- Agatha Christie -
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
-- Akshay Kumar -
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
-- Alain de Botton -
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
-- Alain Ducasse -
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
-- Albert Camus -
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
-- Aldous Huxley -
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
-- Aldous Huxley -
To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.
-- Alessandro ManzoniSource : Alessandro Manzoni (1962). “The Betrothed, "I Promessi Sposi": A Tale of XVII Century Milan”
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
-- Alexander McQueen -
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
-- Alexander Pope -
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
-- Alexander Pope -
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
-- Alexander Smith -
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
-- Alexander the Great -
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
-- Alfred Nobel -
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
-- Alice WatersSource : Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.14, Clarkson Potter
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No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.
-- Alice-Leone MoatsSource : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
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[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.
-- Allan Bloom -
All our tastes are but reminiscences.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.
-- Alysia ReinerSource : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
-- Amy Waldman -
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
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The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
-- Andy Richter -
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
-- Angela Carter -
[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.
-- Ani DiFranco -
She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
-- Ann Brashares -
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the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.
-- Ann BridgeSource : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.9, A&C Black
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There is no accounting for tastes.
-- Ann RadcliffeSource : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.297
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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
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You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press
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The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.
-- Anna Pavlova -
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
-- Anne Burrell -
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Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
-- Anne Desclos -
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
-- Anne Rice -
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
-- Arielle DombasleSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
-- Aristophanes -
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
-- Aristotle -
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
-- Arnold BennettSource : 1930 In the Evening Standard, 21 Aug.
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I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.
-- Art Buchwald -
The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
-- Art Buchwald -
I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy.
-- Art Smith -
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
-- August Bournonville -
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My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
-- Aziz Ansari -
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
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A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
-- Barbara Taylor BradfordSource : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 21, 2014
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.
-- Beau Brummell -
I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
-- Ben Wheatley -
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
-- Benjamin JowettSource : Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
-- Bernard Berenson -
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Taste everything, eat nothing.
-- Bethenny FrankelSource : Bethenny Frankel (2009). “Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
-- Big Jim Sullivan -
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
-- Bill BradleySource : Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks
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The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
-- Bill Nye -
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
-- Billy Carter -
Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.
-- Boman Irani -
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It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.
-- Bon ScottSource : Countdown interview, April 1976.
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To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
-- Bonaventure -
My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
-- Boris KarloffSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.
-- Brad PaisleySource : Song: That's Love, Album: Mud On The Tires, 2003
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The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.
-- Branch Warren -
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
-- Brett Favre -
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.
-- Brett Ratner -
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.
-- Brian Molko -
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In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
-- Bruce Lee -
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.
-- Buddy Rich -
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
-- Cameron Dokey -
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
-- Camille Paglia -
Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.
-- Carl Shapiro -
Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,
-- Carlo PetriniSource : "McItaly Burger: Luca Zaia, Italy’s Agriculture Minister, Defends Boosterism For McDonald’s Burger", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.
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Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
-- Carmel SnowSource : 1962 The World of Carmel Snow.
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