Quotes About Taste

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

No appetite. No sensation in a dry stomach. No desire. No orchids sweet enough to taste. Not the sort of woman to eat sandwiches on a bus. At least not the sort of woman who would eat in the dark. Not anymore.

Incidentally, it seems that 'apartment' has finally taken over from 'flat'; I fancy they'll soon have 'closets' rather than wardrobes. Anyway,

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

Fleeting joy and fading ecstasy, here it goes again, oh, Sneaking fruit from the forbidden tree, sweet taste of sin

The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company, and business; preserving in conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy.

Anna isn't impressed by Baker's efforts in the kitchen. In her world, each dawning day is merely another chance to eat pizza.

This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat

This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat, hot asphalt, and a one-night stand.

doesn't enjoy food that is aggressively healthy

Sugar as consolation—the ultimate comfort food—gave it a psychological dimension that transcended taste and caloric force. The wage-earning worker's ability to buy this previously unattainable luxury connected the "will to work and the will to consume.

Good food is also there to satisfy the senses.

The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.

I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.

This is as close to an act of love as thou wilt ever taste.

Somehow, Kit got the cup to his mouth. Perhaps even the steam was fortifying. It tasted of bitter earth and summer sun and the unshed tears still clogging his throat.

My rival," he whispered, his lips moving against Cathoair's own as Cathoair tried not to understand. "My sister has excellent taste. What a fragile, beautiful boy thou art.

I have terrible taste in women. And Zanya, being an awful human being, was exactly the kind of terrible that was just to my taste.

My taste was terrible, but it was not that bad.

He felt her moving, tasted her sweetness like venomed blood.

He wasn't sure if the salt and iron he tasted was blood and the bridle, or Mehiel's tears.