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Quotes About Taste

Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.
~ Colin Watson
Language is wine upon the lips.
~ Virginia Woolf
But language is wine upon his lips
~ Virginia Woolf
What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.
~ Virginia Woolf
For Orlando's taste was broad; he was no lover of garden flowers only; the wild and the weeds even had always a fascination for him.
~ Virginia Woolf
For Orlando's taste was broad, he was no lover of garden flowers only; the wild and the weeds even had always a fascination for him.
~ Virginia Woolf
I make it a rule to try everything, she said. Don't you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.
~ Virginia Woolf
But no; he did not like cabbages
~ Virginia Woolf
Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of sinning their way to Jesus or, as a Russian author Ivan Bunin put it more bluntly, spilling Jesus all over the place.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would--invariably, with icy precision--plump for the former.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I can't help but desire you. I want to taste you again. This feeling I have for you is more than intense " he said roughly. "It is a possessive thing greedy. I look at you Corinne Bishop and all I can think is that you are mine .
~ Lara Adrian
And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.
~ Larissa Ione
Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet… not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.
~ Larissa Ione
Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.
~ Laura Lippman
feeding her raw oysters at Charleston, or sharing the gingerbread with lemon chiffon sauce at Bicycle.
~ Laura Lippman
If you don't like it, don't eat it! And if you like it, really savour it
~ Laura Thomas
too. "Grandma makes the best pies." "Me pie too." Carl banged his
~ Lauraine Snelling
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
~ Lauren Conrad
BABY BOY, FASHION IS NOT FOR ADVERTISING YOUR FAVE SEX ACTS ON YOUR SHIRT. UNH-UNH, NO IT'S NOT !
~ Lauren Weisberger
being a very good and restorative meat," said Fletcher, who compared its taste and texture to lobster.
~ Laurence Bergreen
yacht club tastes and a rubber ducky budget.
~ Laurence Shames
You know how to twirl a good pizza, honey.
~ Laurent Kabila
[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
~ laurent yves saint ii
Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar