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Quotes About Taste

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Taste is the feminine of genius.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
~ Samuel Butler
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
~ Charles Lamb
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
~ M. J. De Chenier
Everyone to his taste.
~ French proverb
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
~ Victor Hugo
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
~ Poincelot
I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.
~ Art Buchwald
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
~ J. PetitSenn
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.
~ Sa'di
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
~ German proverb
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
~ Charles Darwin
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
Good wine sells itself.
~ German proverb
There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
~ J.D. Robb
The music room's in the next wing. We can have coffee and brandy there." "I doubt we'd share the same taste in music, Roarke." "You might be surprised," he murmured, "at what we share." He touched her cheek again, this time sliding his hand around until it cupped the back of her neck. "At what we will share.
~ J.D. Robb
They are not to be scarfed, the cinnamon sticky bun, but savored.
~ J.D. Robb
What are you drinking?" "Number fifty-four; it's supposed to be a chardonnay." Experimentally, Eve sipped again. "It's at least three steps up from horse piss. I recommend it.
~ J.D. Robb
up. "He's hardly my type
~ J.D. Robb
If you don't like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.
~ J.L. Borges
I don't like wine,' says Davíd. 'It's sour.' 'Wine is an acquired taste. When we are young we don't like it, then when we are older we acquire a taste for it.' 'I am never going to acquire a taste for it.' 'That's what you say. Let's wait and see.' Having
~ J.M. Coetzee
Tohr shook his head. If you're going to get plastered, why can't you do it like areal man. I like the taste of fruit. You are what you drink. The angel glanced up at the clock, Shit. I missed Maury. But, I DVR'd Ellen.
~ J.R. Ward