Taste And Judgment Quotes:

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

topic: Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment, Profanity

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

- E. B. White

topic: Communication, Luck, Crafts, Usage, Taste And Judgment

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Taste, Speak, Judgment, Taste And Judgment

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

source: Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

topic: Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound, Erudition, Taste And Judgment

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

- Greil Marcus

source: Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

topic: Fun, Ideas, Rocks, Gullibility, Taste And Judgment

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Perseverance, Believe, Book, Taste And Judgment

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

- Harold Ramis

topic: Goes On, Taste, Firsts, Taste And Judgment

A man of refined taste and judgment.

- Horace

topic: Men, Taste, Judgment, Taste And Judgment

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Pain, Criticism, Quality, Pedantry, Taste And Judgment

Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.

- Leopold Auer

source: Leopold Auer (1960). “Violin Playing as I Teach it”, p.69, Courier Corporation

topic: Errors, Play, Musical, Musical Taste, Taste And Judgment

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

- Stanley Kubrick

topic: Jobs, Character, Exercise, Taste And Judgment