Taste Quotes

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. (Edith Sitwell)
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Taste is the enemy of creativeness. View quote
Pablo Picasso
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. View quote
James Thurber
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. View quote
George Eliot
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. View quote
Steve Jobs
What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. View quote
William Shakespeare
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. View quote
Henry Flynt
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. View quote
Tracey Ullman
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. (Alexander Pope)
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature. View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. View quote
Gilda Radner