Taste Quotes - page 3

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. (Samuel Rutherford)
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. View quote
George Santayana
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. View quote
Luis Barragán
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. View quote
François Fénelon
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. View quote
Ray Bradbury
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Exuberance is better than taste. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. (William Wordsworth)
But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. View quote
Jack London
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. View quote
Vitruvius
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture. View quote
Martha Graham
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. View quote
Bill Maher
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ... View quote
J. William Fulbright
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. View quote
John Green (author)
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. View quote
Elia Kazan
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Fashion designers are dictators of taste. (Karl Lagerfeld)
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. View quote
Voltaire
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste. View quote
Marc Chagall
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. View quote
Manuel Puig
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. View quote
Manuel Puig